This one time, at band camp, Sam Varghese said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I sometimes use the Eterm - the terminal which is part of Enlightenment > - - when I'm using ssh to connect to other boxes. > > It appears not to support certain native shell commands - like "clear" > for example. I get back a message saying: > "'Eterm': unknown terminal type." > > This doesn't happen with gnome-terminal or the terminal that comes with > kde. > > What's the reason for this? > > Sam There are many different terminal types under linux, and Eterm happens to be it's own type. Look under /usr/share/terminfo/ for all the different ones. The short answer is that gnome-terminal and others frequently just send their term type as linux. If you want this same behavior, ssh like this: TERM=linux ssh user@host.some.where HTH, Steve -- standards, n.: The principles we use to reject other people's code.
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