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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew@DeFaria.com>
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Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT?
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:58:52 -0800
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Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:

>>Not really. All the below reference says is that this is intentional, not why it's being done. My question was why.
> 
> If you follow the later posts as I mention below, you might find the answers.


Don't have the time.


> If you're really interested in understanding what the background on this
> issue is, you'll want to check out the discussions in the email archives
> regarding the problems that arose when bash was changed.  
> 
> BTW, bash was changed because these environment variables are set at login
> on *NIX platforms, so setting them in bash is redundant at best.  
> 
> But I still recommend looking at the email archives to understand 
> everyone's ideas on this issue.


I really don't have the time to do this. I just pointed out the issue.


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