Message-Id:	<199701172201.HAA07791@mail.st.rim.or.jp>
From:	"Daisuke Aoyama" <jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp>
To:	<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc:	"DJGPP ML" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: bash, emacs 19.34, termcap
Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 1997 06:24:29 +0900
MIME-Version:	1.0

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>A question to Daisuke Aoyama: is it really necessary for `bash' to define 
>$TERM?  What happens if the DJGPP port won't define it?  I think defining 
>$TERM could break some other ports of Unix software too, so if it isn't 
>really required, I'd suggest not to define it.

I don't know needs clearly. But BASH sets TERM as exported variable. 
(you can see it by env.exe) Some shell script might assume it. 
I think "TERM=internal" is better than no definition. Does it have any
problem?

Daisuke Aoyama
jack AT st DOT rim DOT or DOT jp

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