>  > window ships with NetBSD and runs on the *text* console, like screen.
>  > Some of the differences being that window is a BSD program while screen is
>  > GPL'd (and window ships with NetBSD).
>
> What pisses me off about 'window' is that there is no termcap entry
> for it so you can't login to another system from a 'window' window
> and expect to use anything other than 'ed'.

I know.  Although, window is using the environment variables in a standard
way.  ssh, at least, should forward everything needed to make it Just
Work; alas, it does not.


Still, I agree that window should use a standard term-type.  As a simple
solution, you can extract the termcap entry that it generates into your
environment and paste that into the remote system (I think you can
actually use it just as a termcap entry, yes?).

Maybe I'll free up some time to work on window.  That one's always bugged
me, too---and then adding a screen-like facility to reconnect a session
would be a plus.  (But real work to figure out, I think.)  (^&


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu