Making Mac terminal behave with remote MC

[Ben <2blkbelt nemontel net>]

At 5/29/05 10:00 AM, you wrote:

> Firstly, please use a descriptive subject line instead of replying to
> your digest. Secondly, please have your mail user agent insert a
> linefeed every 72 or so characters.

Sorry about the subject. The line wrapping... Thanks for
the pointer.

> You are doomed to go RTFM.
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Text-Terminal-HOWTO-15.html for starters.

I've read this document about five times and it is about
as clear as mud. Apparently, I am missing significant parts
of presumed background knowledge. Or intelligence.

> If you can't figure out how to set your environment variables correctly
> please be so kind to at least provide that information here.

RH9: TERM=vt100
RH9: LANG=en_US.UTF-8

MAC: TERM=vt100
MAC: __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0