On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 03:33:27PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > Some time ago, xterm's terminal emulation changed, and the "xterm" > terminfo entry changed with it. Since xvt implements the emulation > associated with the old version of xterm, I changed its terminal type to > "xterm-old". Of course, this means that, when logging in to other kinds > of machines, the terminal type isn't recognised. > > However, I noticed recently that xterm now uses "xterm-debian" as its > terminal type (because of a complaint from a colleague that it wasn't > recognised by any other machines!), and that "xterm-old" seems to be the > same as "xterm". Is this true? When was this changed back? Should I > change xvt back to "xterm"? Are there plans to muck about with this > again in the future that I should know about? Please read /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian and see <http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html>. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's "magic" is another man's Purdue University | engineering. "Supernatural" is a branden@purdue.edu | null word. http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Robert Heinlein
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