For now, if you are using the Bourne shell, use TERM=linux export TERM
or for the C-shell, use setenv TERM linux This is where my memory gets foggy. Some security package called lshell or something similar messes up the shell environment. The fix is to deinstall the package or to edit /etc/shells to allow the normal shells (without the "lshells" prefix) and change your login shell in /etc/passwd back to the non-lshells one. Someone no doubt will make this a bit sharper for me. I am moving my home and have not had my Linux system booted since Wednesday. Thanks Bruce