* David Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-Thu-01 14:59 -0700]:
>
>What bothers me about this approach, in general, is that it's not
>supposed to depend on your shell -- you're not supposed to need to make
>tests and reset $TERM accordingly at all. The point of terminfo/termcap
>and the $TERM variable is that the terminal emulator application should
>tell the shell what terminal it's emulating by means of $TERM, and
>everything should work.
this makes sense to me
>If it doesn't, then something is wrong with your terminfo library or
>your termcap file, or your terminal emulator is lying.
>needs new options or resources.
perhaps. i do this in particular for "cygwin" terminal type,
since that's the type you get if you try to ssh (using ssh
that comes with cygwin) from win2k shell prompt.
denis
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