Re: Interactive programs and dumb terminals (emacs shell)

[harry meyers]

john maclean schrieb:

> Hey Chaps,
>
> I've been using M-x shell recently and getting the hang of the
> difference between this shell and say /bin/bash.
>
> My question is in the cases where one installs a program (via say
> apt-get -y install foo) which then prompts you for some configuration
> settings. The emacs shell is a "dumb terminal" as I understand it and
> interactive programs that use ncurses
> won't work. Install latex, tetex or xorg and you'll get asked system
> settings like your resolution, paper size etc.
>
> How can I over come this? ( Hope that this is all clear).

You can use M-x term which activates /bin/bash by default. 

harry