thats just how it is ..it depends on what "xterm" you use, I use gnome-terminal(used to use kvt) and don't have a problem. This SGI Indy I'm on set's it's default terminal to iris-ansi. Slackware (3.2 anyways) had in the /etc/profile a detection routine for terminal type and if it failed detection it would default to something, I usually just throw a export TERM=vt100 into my /etc/profile or .profile if you dont have root. I think for 99% of things vt100 will work, for the other 1% change them on an individual basis(i've never found a terminal app that didnt work with vt100- although using vt100 on this SGI causes some screwy lines but it does work..)
nate On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Andrew J.F. Clark wrote: andrew >Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the andrew >slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and andrew >pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). andrew >I can solve this by export TERM=xterm, but I'm just wondering if there andrew >is any particular reason debians xterm set TERM to this and if there andrew >isn't, how do I change it so that it doesn't anymore. andrew > andrew >-- andrew >Regards, andrew > Andrew Clark andrew > andrew > andrew >-- andrew >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null andrew > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 9:54am up 124 days, 21:45, 2 users, load average: 0.20, 0.24, 0.25
