how to make xterm use vt100 or ansi termcap

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From: Kent Tong
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 1996 00:00

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The man page of xterm says that it searches the terminfo for
entry named "xterm", "vt100" and "ansi" in that order and
use the first one found. Since I have "xterm" entry it always
uses it. But I sometimes want xterm to act as an "ansi" terminal
or "vt100" terminal, is it possible?


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Kent Tong
Freeman Installer ==> http://www.netnet.net/users/freeman/

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