"Andrew J.F. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the | slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and | pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). | I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there | is any particular reason debians xterm set TERM to this and if there | isn't, how do I change it so that it doesn't anymore.
RTFM. Look at /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian Gary