#hmmm: why were we doing this? it scorches the user's logged in session, leaving it without proper terminal handling.
# # we save the value of TERM; we don't want to leave the user's terminal
# # brain dead once we come back from this function.
#hmmm: why were we doing this? it scorches the user's logged in session, leaving it without proper terminal handling.
# # we save the value of TERM; we don't want to leave the user's terminal
# # brain dead once we come back from this function.