Some time ago, xterm's terminal emulation changed, and the "xterm" terminfo entry changed with it. Since xvt implements the emulation associated with the old version of xterm, I changed its terminal type to "xterm-old". Of course, this means that, when logging in to other kinds of machines, the terminal type isn't recognised.
However, I noticed recently that xterm now uses "xterm-debian" as its terminal type (because of a complaint from a colleague that it wasn't recognised by any other machines!), and that "xterm-old" seems to be the same as "xterm". Is this true? When was this changed back? Should I change xvt back to "xterm"? Are there plans to muck about with this again in the future that I should know about? Thanks, -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: <URL:http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2
