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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:36:38 -0800 (PST)
From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm?
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> > 01:05:51 root #setenv TERM xterm-color
> > setenv: not found
> > 01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color
> 
> What shell are you using ?  The above error indicates that you are 
> using a bourne flavor shell and thus the set TERM xterm-color
> won't set your TERM variable.
> 
> The TERM variable setting is irrelevant for colorls to work (it could
> be TERM=dumb as well).


I'm using /bin/sh.  I guess you're telling me it doesn't matter, right?

Ken