From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 12:29:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C68537BD98 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 12:29:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-194-8-209-62.netcologne.de [194.8.209.62]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA06400; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:29:33 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e69JStf03378; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:28:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: David@SkytrackerCanada.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where are xterm variables set? In-Reply-To: <39681451.B815CB21@www3.pacific-pages.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, David Banning wrote: > when I go into X - I notice variables like TERM and TERMCAP have > changed. > > Where are they set? In xterm(1). From the manpage: .......Termcap(5) entries that work with xterm include ``xterm,'' ``vt102,'' ``vt100'' and ``ansi,'' and xterm automatically searches the termcap file in this order for these entries and then sets the ``TERM'' and the ``TERM- CAP'' environment variables. You may also use ``vt220,'' but must set the terminal emulation level with the decTer- minalID resource. You can change the TERM variable with the '-tn' option. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message