[SLUG] Re: Export TERM=What?

[Angus Lees <gusl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 04:50:22PM +1000, MacFarlane, Jarrod wrote:
> Windows 2000 telnet.exe supports colour .. so it seems.
> 
> I ran linuxconf and it came up in colour .. but all over the place!
> (Actually squished in to 7 lines on the screen)
> 
> I tried setting the TERM type to linux, vt100 and ansi terms with no luck ..
> any suggestions? (Other than installing linux) :)

what was TERM set to before you mucked around with it?

(i've found that the old (sucky) telnet.exe worked much better as a
vt100, despite it always claiming to be ansi)

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 - Gus