and another thing.. setting the TERM variable has nothing to do with what 
the terminal supports. we're talking about whether the remote machine has 
the TERM in its termcap.

'rxvt' for example is mostly a Linux-ism: an xterm with the Tektronix
plotter support removed to save memory. most Sun/SGI/other UNIX don't know
what an 'rxvt' is because they don't have it defined in their termcap. But 
they ALL know what an 'xterm' is.

And, for all practical purposes, an 'rxvt' IS an 'xterm' -- but if you try
to send it the escape sequences for XY plotting on the Tektronix
extension, you won't get anything.



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Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mosaic Communications, Inc.

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