Making Mac terminal behave with remote MC

[Ben]

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