On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:22:00PM -0500, Paul Miller wrote: > What's the deal with the terminal setting "xterm-debian?" Why can't it just > be "xterm," like with every other unix system? It would may so things a > little easier if it was "xterm" since most programs (to my knowledge) have > never heard of a "xterm-debian" setting and a few programs ask you to > change the terminal type - like telnet for example. It's not telnet who complains. It's the remote host you telnetted to. It does not have a xterm-debian in it's termcap. Just export TERM=xterm before connecting. cu Torsten (who likes xterm-debian because it is the only working xterm :))
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