On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:28:15PM +0400, Andrey Chernov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 03:55:20PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > For PuTTY, most users have it incorrectly set to "xterm"(*). > > There are no clues - so I added the environment variable to help. > > BTW, we have "putty" terminal entry for that purpose.
yes - but see
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html
A.5.1 What terminal type does PuTTY use?
which is not really helpful. Compare PuTTY and xterm using
ftp://invisible-island.net/vttest/
(the difference in wrapping behavior which is evident in the first menu
selection is reflected in the different terminal descriptions).
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