Unix - I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'.

If you receive the following error, typically when using text editors like vi, then you need to change your Terminal (Environment variable: TERM)

xterm-color: Unknown terminal type
I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'.

Depending on which shell your using, set the following...

csh shell

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1. setenv TERM xterm

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bash

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1. export TERM='xterm'

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xterm is an example of a terminal emulator. You can use whichever you would like, it's simply a program that emulates a video terminal within some display architecture. Programs gather information from the terminal your currently using (Set in TERM) to aide the display of the content/program.

Here is a good list of various terminals you can try: List of Terminals