Re: terminal types

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

x.y.f@home.com wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 04:00:03PM -0500, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote:
>> what are my available choices as to terminal types?  when i telnet into a
>> redhat box, it replies that debian-terminal is unknown.  i'd like to set
>> my TERM environment that would let me telnet between different boxes with
>> no problems.  any suggestions?
>
>I just stuck this in my ~/.bashrc
>export TERM=xterm
>for the very same reason.

I'd suggest:

  [ "$DISPLAY" ] && export TERM=xterm

... in case you might ever want to log in on a virtual console.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]