Re: How to properly set TERM variable

[Will Lowe <harpo@udel.edu>]

> > Note that, as things stand now, in hamm there is no xterm-color.
> > /etc/terminfo/x/xterm includes the color definition, and there is a
> > /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old.[1]  (There are also color_xterm,

Has anyone found a way for the TERM setters to determine whether or not an
xterm can do color xterm stuff?  For example,  I ssh into my linux box a
lot from Sun machines,  which set TERM=xterm.  But the sun xterms can't
handle color xterm stuff,  and therefore it needs to be set
TERM=xterm-old.  But I haven't found a way for .bashrc to tell the
difference between these sun boxes and other machines that CAN to
xterm-color stuff,  so I have to do it by hand.

                     					Will


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