Questions[terminfo](server)

please advice how to bold the "Date & Time" numbers from the following file with tput command ( I have Solaris machine)

for example I want to bold only the "24-09-2009 16:17:45" etc for all other date and time

the tput will write in my ksh script

thx for the support

  TIMESTAMP               SET_ID TELEPHONE                    No TYPE
  ------------------- ---------- -------------------- ---------- ------------------

  24-09-2009 16:17:45          0 33633333333                  20 other_mms_phone
  24-09-2009 17:45:07          0 33644444444                  20 other_mms_phone
  07-10-2009 10:45:49          0 12312312312                  20 legacyphone
  07-10-2009 11:46:38          0 59320000043                  20 other_mms_phone

I would like to configure the terminal type by detecting it. For example when I am connecting to a Solaris box with PuTTY, the $TERM variable is set to vt100. I would like to negotiate this so, when the terminal emulator is PuTTY, to set $TERM to xterm.

I've noticed that at ^E PuTTY answers back with PuTTY. But I think that the best method is to use tput to try to detect the terminal emulator type. The problem is that I could not find any reference in the terminfo or tput manual how to do this.

Otherwise I will try with something based on:

unset remote_term;echo $'\cE';read -rt 1 -n5 remote_term ;echo remote_term=$remote_term

Is there a portable way to list supported terminal types on all NX systems?

If not, what's the best way to get this list on Solaris?

I have a problem with gnu screen.

Computer 1:

open terminal
$ printenv TERM
xterm-color
$ screen
$ printenv TERM
screen

Computer 2:

open terminal
$ printenv TERM
xterm-color
$ screen
$ printenv TERM
xterm-color

Both computers are running Mac OS X 10.6.4, screen version 4.00.03, and similar configuration.

According to screen its man page:

In each window's environment screen opens, the $TERM variable is set to "screen" by default. But when no description for "screen" is installed in the local termcap or terminfo data base, you set $TERM to - say - "vt100".

In both computers I have the terminfo files for "screen" at /opt/local/share/terminfo/73

Even when I do screen -T screen I still get the $TERM variable set as xterm-color

Any ideas?

I discovered through this answer that I've been setting terminal colours in my prompt in a naive way for years.

I've now modified my .bashrc to use 'tput' commands to colourise various elements of my prompt. The one remaining escape code I have is this:

TITLEBAR="\[\033]2; PROD - \u@\h:\w \007\]"

Does anyone know if there is a tput/terminfo attribute I can use to set the title bar of my terminal window, so that I can eliminate that escape?