mintty what $TERM setting should I use?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb  6 01:22, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, All!
> 
> If I understand correctly, mintty is based on PuTTY code.
> However, the PuTTY terminal capabilities are slightly different than of xterm,
> and terminfo database have separate profiles for putty/-vt100/-256color.
> My question is, what TERM should I use when advertising my caps to a remote
> system?
> So far, I've had success with xterm-256color, I'm just wondering, if I should
> change it?

xterm is ok.


Corinna

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