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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 10:19:32 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: termcap problem in RXVT?
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At 11:58 PM 3/20/2002, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>
>>>Not really. All the below reference says is that this is intentional, not why it's being done. My question was why.
>>If you follow the later posts as I mention below, you might find the answers.
>
>
>Don't have the time.
>
>
>>If you're really interested in understanding what the background on this
>>issue is, you'll want to check out the discussions in the email archives
>>regarding the problems that arose when bash was changed.  
>>BTW, bash was changed because these environment variables are set at login
>>on *NIX platforms, so setting them in bash is redundant at best.  
>>But I still recommend looking at the email archives to understand everyone's ideas on this issue.
>
>
>I really don't have the time to do this. I just pointed out the issue.



OK.  I guess I was just pointing out that this issue has already been 
discussed.  To my mind, it's not a problem awaiting a solution.  It's 
merely awaiting someone interested enough to implement the proper solution.




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