Re: PATH and other environment variables

[Peter S Galbraith <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>]

Christian Meder wrote:

> > Also, setting LS_OPTIONS to something liek "--8bit --color=tty -F -T 0"
> > would be nice.  The default setup doesn't have a working colour
> > `ls'.
> 
> See /usr/doc/fileutils/color-ls.gz

Thanks. 

> > Also, `xterm' doesn't start because it says it can't find the proper 
> > termcap entry.  rxvt starts okay.
> 
> This is strange. I never saw this problem on any Debian
> installation. Unfortunately that doesn't help you :-/
> 
> Besides I believe it should look for a terminfo entry instead of
> termcap.

polar# xterm
xterm:  unable to find usable termcap entry.
polar# whereis xterm
xterm: /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x.gz
 /usr/X11R6/man/man1/xterm.1x 

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