[Coco] telnet and terminal questions

Christopher Hawks chawks at dls.net
Sun Dec 27 20:38:53 EST 2009


Willard Goosey said the following on 12/27/2009 07:20 PM:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 06:25:42PM -0600, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:
>>> Question 1:  What terminal does MacOSX terminal app emulate?  (Someone
>>> open it and say "echo $TERM", please, and post the answer.)
>> xterm
> 
> OK.... That's strange, but OK.  Convenient. :-)
> 
> Well, IIRC, xterm is almost ansi anyway.

	Why is that strange? Macs run FreeBSD which is Linux's step-brother. Most of 
the software on a Mac is GPL (except the user interface).

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