In my shell source file on work's solaris box, I set the terminal variable to vt100 because that worked relatively well with windows but it still had it's problems. When I tried to connect to that machine using my new debian box, I was surprised to discover the same problems, it can't backspace in emacs properly in some applications like sftp and doesn't understand all the emacs key bindings. What terminal type is my linux box and how can I make Debian and Solaris talk better? Sean
