midnight commander not starting

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, M.W. Chang wrote:
> root at server: root> mc
> Screen size 0x0 is not supported.
> Check the TERM environment variable.
> root at server: root> echo $TERM
> linux
>
> What likely is broken? It used to work.
> I now have to export TERM=xterm to work around it.

that doesn't sound like a workaround, it sounds like the solution.
'linux' isn't a valid $TERM for most things that care about $TERM.

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