Re: terminal weirdness?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz () CSH RIT EDU>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:52:50PM -0600, Ron DuFresne wrote:

> understood, but, I thought the poster stated his TERM=vt100 and the result
> he got back was a vt200 setting, yes?

This response has little or nothing to do with the TERM environment variable.
Imagine that you're sitting in front of a real, live VT100 terminal, logged
into a UNIX system where TERM is set to "dumb".  The VT100 has no way of
knowing what this variable is set to, and will likely respond "VT100".

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 - mdz