[Mac OS X TeX] False alarm: Warning on Mac OS X 10.1.3 and TeX.dmg

[Gerben Wierda]

On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 07:19 , Philippe Lelédy wrote:

> I think I have the same wrong setting:
>
> 'xterm': unknown terminal type   [ so crashes texconfig ]

xterm is an X11 program (I think) that I do not have (no X11 on my 
ststems)

> Error opening terminal: xterm   [ so crash lynx & dselect ]
>
> WARNING: terminal is not fully functional  [ so warns less ]

I do not know what xterm has to do with this. I run texconfig from a 
Terminal.app window and I get a character-based interface (curses).

> can you explain your fix ?

My Terminal window was less that 80 characters wide at that point. That 
made tcdialog crash instead of die gracefully.

G


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