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Re: TERM=xterm-debian



"Andrew J.F. Clark" <andrew.clark@technologist.com> writes:
| Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the
| slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and
| pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). 
| I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there
| is any particular reason debians xterm set TERM to this and if there
| isn't, how do I change it so that it doesn't anymore.

RTFM. Look at /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian

Gary


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