Error opening terminal: vt100 hpux 11.0

[Danny Jensen]

I am excited about using mutt. I have pine but I needed the ability to
send mail attachments via the command line and mutt is it!
but ...

I can't get mutt to work. I have read a few posts on this exact
problem but I could not find a post with the resolution. Thank you in
advance for your help.

/ $ mutt
Error opening terminal: vt100.

/opt/mutt/doc $ TERM=tty mutt
Error opening terminal: tty.

/opt/mutt/doc $ more VERSION
1.2.5

HP-UX xxxxux B.11.00 U 9000/800
* Source:
/tmp/mutt-1.2.5-sd-11.00.depot

[Sven Mascheck]

Danny Jensen <da...@magtek.com> wrote:

> HP-UX B.11.00 [...] /tmp/mutt-1.2.5-sd-11.00.depot
[apparently precompiled from "Software Porting And Archive Centre"]

> / $ mutt
> Error opening terminal: vt100.

It can't find your terminal descriptions.
- a path for a (n)curses package might be compiled in and
the package might document that somewhere (particularly
in the compiling notes)
- The environmentvariable TERMINFO should help
(for the first try "TERMINFO=/usr/lib/terminfo export TERMINFO")
or might even already contain an invalid value.
- the syscall tracer for 11 is named 'tusc', and could report in detail
what's going on (see the "Software Porting And Archive Centre")

(i have no HPUX11, btw)

> /opt/mutt/doc $ TERM=tty mutt
> Error opening terminal: tty.

No need to try likely invalid values :)

[FUP2 comp.sys.hp.hpux, in case you still have problems,
followup with details]

Sven