From:	sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject:	RE: Default TERM to cygwin?
18 Mar 1998 06:55:25 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<01BD5295.01915B70.cygnus.cygwin32.developers@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru>
To:	"cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin32-developers AT cygnus DOT com>

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'd like to propose that we change the default TERM environment variable
> to 'cygwin', add an entry for 'cygwin' to /etc/termcap, and create a
> terminfo entry for 'cygwin'.  Then, if the environment variable TERM is
> not set, set it to 'cygwin' by default.
>
> We could keep the definition as 'linux', but I think this is a little
> unclear and also might strap us for future console changes.  For
> instance, I've added the ability to set the console title bar using
> xterm escape sequences.  Although, I don't think that there is any
> provision for defining this using termcap or terminfo, other changes in
> the future might require a new entry for cygwin.
>

I think it would be much better to implement some additional xterm's 
features in fhandler_console and set this variable to "xterm" or 
"xterm-color". I don't want some cygwin-specific terminal type!

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