xterm problems

[Wilfred Villegas]

I set the TERM variable to vt100 and it works.  But it gets changed to vt102
everytime i restart cygwin.  Where am I supposed to change it so it's
permanent?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir@technion.ac.il>
To: "Wilfred Villegas" <wilvil@rogers.com>
Cc: <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: xterm problems


> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Wilfred Villegas wrote:
>
> > I just recently installed the newest xfree86 (4.2.0).I have cygwin
> > installed on a Windows 98 machine.I have two problems:
>
> > 2) Even though startx doesn't work, startxwin.sh works, and that's what
I
> > use now.But when I'm in xterm, and open one of the man pages, I get this
> > message:
> > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> > - (press RETURN)
>
> This is related to the terminal definitions.
>
> Immediate workaround:
>
> run:
>
>   TERM=vt100
>
> (or 'set term=vt100' on tcsh)
>
> Gives you almost all of what you need, and is defined just about anywhere.
>
> What is your current value of TERM? ('echo $TERM')
>
> BTW:
> The terminfo definition file of xterm is /usr/share/termonfo/x/xterm
>
> --
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
>
>
>