Re: Debian xterm termcap broken
On Sun Apr 8 14:04:02 2001 Alan Shutko wrote...
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>Stan Brown <stanb@awod.com> writes:
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>> I have a fairly fresh stable install on a machine, and I am having
>> problems with the Debian xterm termcap entry.
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>> Loged onot the Debian box for a HP-UX machine, and runing a real
>> xterm on that machine.
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>Try
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>export TERM=xterm-r5
OK, that works great.
How about a bit of an explanation here? Did backward compatibilty get broken
for a reason? There are a world of X11R5 servers out there.
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