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In each windowscreen
opens, it sets the$TERM
variable toscreen
by default, unless no description forscreen
is installed in the local termcap or terminfo data base. In that case it pretends that the terminal emulator is ‘vt100’. This won't do much harm, asscreen
is VT100/ANSI compatible. The use of theterm
command is discouraged for non-default purpose. That is, one may want to specify special$TERM
settings (e.g. vt100) for the nextscreen rlogin othermachine
command. Use the commandscreen -T vt100 rlogin othermachine
rather than setting and resetting the default.