On Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:16:59 -0600 (CST), Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu> wrote: > set TERM=vt220;export TERM (for sh) This is not correct. Should be TERM=vt220; export TERM or even better export TERM=vt220 If you "set" in sh, you may get some strange results (it sets shell variables such as line editting mode, etc). Ken