*-George Bonser (20 Jul) | On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ken Lauffenburger wrote: | > | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | > Also, on a related note, what is the purpose of changing the TERM variable | > to "xterm-debian" ? I'm planning on changing it back on my system unless | > there is some benefit that I haven't discovered yet. The problem I have is | > when I establish an ssh session to my Sun machine at work, it doesn't | > understand "xterm-debian" and I have to set the TERM variable to "xterm" to | > get any useful work done. | > | > Thanks. | | The terminfo entry for xterm-debian can be copied directly to a Solaris | machine without modification. | | Copy /etc/terminfo/x/xterm-debian on the linux box to | /usr/share/lib/terminfo/x/xterm-debian on the Solaris box or have your | sysadmin do it if you do not have root on that machine. Also, you can cut | and paste the termcap entry in /etc/termcap for xterm-debian to | /etc/termcap on the Solaris box. |
I think this is a horrible solution. Why does Debian xterm have to make itself unique and incompatible with the rest of the world? Do Redhat, Slackware, Suse, Caldera, etc. have their own xterm variants? I think this kind of separation just makes non-Linux users more alienated from the Linux community. There has to be a better solution. -- Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
