what I meant was, my TERM variable was set TERM=screen
This is because I was using the 'screen' program - a terminal multiplexor
thing.  It's good stuff, I reccommend it.

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:56 AM, steve <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Thanks Daniel for your reply.
> Im sorry I dont understand what you mean by your "screen" setting?
>
> I read through the data you suggested. Im not completely clear on it.
> Anyway as you suggested I typed...
>
> export TERM=xterm
>
> This seems to work. Although at first man pages didnt work properly,
> but after setting TERM to ansi,eg export TERM=ansi, which also seems
> to work and then back again it now works. Odd but dont care as long as
> it works.
>
> thanks for the answer
>
> >
>


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          Daniel

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