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* Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> [2002-11-16 17:30] :
> Frédéric Bothamy <fbothamy@mail.dotcom.fr> writes:
> 
> > I still don't understand why auto-color tries to color on a dumb
> > terminal (same here). Probably a wrong terminfo/termcap definition.
> 
> Is $TERM really `dumb' in an Emacs shell?

Using M-x shell, yes (for me under GNU Emacs 21.2.1), using eshell
TERM is not defined.

Fred