on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 05:12:13PM -0600, ktb (x.y.f@home.com) wrote:
> I was wondering if there was anyway to permanently change the
> environment variable TERM from xterm-debian to just xterm?
> When I access pine at work to read mail it flips out. The
> server is running redhat and it's not changing. It seems I've
> seen this come up a while back but I can't find anything in the
> archives. Why xterm-debian anyway? What is the benefit?
> Thanks,
> kent
In your .profile on the remote box:
if [ "$TERM" = "xterm-debian" ]; then
export TERM=xterm
fi
...for a large set of values you want to test for, a case/esac statement
might be more appropriate.
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