>  > Still, I agree that window should use a standard term-type.  As a simple
>  > solution, you can extract the termcap entry that it generates into your
>  > environment and paste that into the remote system (I think you can
>  > actually use it just as a termcap entry, yes?).
>
> yes, but you can't do that if you're using a text console, and under X,

Yes you can.  I just did it; it's a bit of a hassle, but it's not
difficult.  (You can get around the need to cut and paste and deal with "a
line at a time" if you do something like 'echo $TERMCAP >file', but you
can fix up the file locally before sending it to the remote machine.  Even
for cutting and pasting, X isn't necessary---you just need *some* way to
do cutting and pasting.  I did mine in window; you oculd have done it in
screen.  (^&)

Again, I agree that window(1) is screwey for not using a real termcap
entry, and ssh is screwey for not exporting $TERMCAP.  And it would be
nice if window-compatible termcap entries were part of termcap.  And
window *SHOULD* be using a modified VT100 instead of a totally unique
(bizarre) terminal emulation.

And, in all of this, GNU screen did a much saner job.

Still, you can do it.  (^&


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu