From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: TERM/termcap question
15 Nov 1998 16:47:32 -0800
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---Christopher Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 01:00:23PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> I couldn't bring myself to have a product called "cygwin" use a
default
> >> TERM setting of "linux".
> >
> >I agree.
> >

I would agree with this also.  TERM=cygwin is a better choice.

> 
> >The file `cygnus.bat' should contain a line `set TERM=cygwin' to
> >show, that a TERM setting is not unimportant.
> 

This would be good to do.  This would at least be a point of
documentation.

> I was proposing setting the TERM environment variable automatically.
> Not everyone runs the programs via the cygnus.bat file.

And so would this.  So, I would vote for having a default on startup
and having it stored in the cygnus.bat file.



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