Richard Rauch <rauch@rice.edu>  wrote:
 > 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?).

yes, but you can't do that if you're using a text console, and under X,
you have to paste it a line at a time because you get newlines in your
paste buffer.

'screen' is one of the first things I build everywhere.