> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:56:52 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Thomas E. Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Daniel Farnsworth Teichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: color
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Daniel Farnsworth Teichert wrote:
> 
> > When I was first messing around with Mutt I had similar
> > troubles when trying to use a regular old xterm. It
> > seems like I found that setting the environment variable
> > TERM to color_xterm instead of just xterm made it work.
> > Calling xterm with the -tn color_xterm flag has a similar
> > effect, I think.
> 
> color_xterm is similar to xterm-color, and both are incorrect for XFree86
> xterm and rxvt (ditto Eterm and aterm, konsole and gnome-terminal).
 
    If xterm-color is incorrect, what should the value be?
    BTW, 1.2.5 displayed colors in rxvt without this hack,
    1.3.23i didn't display colors until I put 
    rxtv.termName = xterm-color in my .Xdefaults.
    TIA

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