[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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