Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about "TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions"
> Hi!
> 
> Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the
> TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system
> doesn't know "xterm-debian" of course
> 
> I don't think this was intended, so I guess I must be missing
> something.  Or how do you guys deal with that?
> 
> Thanks,
>  Andy.
> 

See /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian for ways to deal with this and the
reasons behind it.

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Brian 
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