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Subject: Re: TERM=cons25 in roots' .profile?!?
To: branson@widomaker.com (Branson Matheson)
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 14:26:31 +0100 (MET)
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>  Just had this brought up to me... why oh why are we setting a TERM
>  entry in .profile for root?! login does this for us and .login sets
>  TERMCAP based on the one reported to the shell by login or asked at
>  login time? 

agreed. I noticed the same when installed the 961006 snap

	Luigi