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From: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
To: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net>
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Subject: Re: termcap
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> > I finally installed FreeBSD on my PC. Have had this partitcular problem
> > for awhile, but never really needed to fix it until now. I cannot telnet
> > into a BSDI 2.1 system. It tells me: 
> > 
> > tset: terminal type cons25 is unknown
> 
> Try ibm-pc3, or is it ibmpc-3, something like that.  We converted the last
> of our BSDI boxes to FreeBSD several months ago, BSDI is just a vague
> memory to me now. :)  
> 
> The other option, if you have root access to the BSDI box, is to add the
> cons25 entry from FreeBSD's termcap to the termcap on the BSDI machine.  
> Or just add cons25 to the ibm-pc3 entry, that'll give you /most/ of the
> functionality.

It was ibmpc3. Ive always tried vt100, ansi, and xterm. None of them
worked very well, but seems ibmpc3 works great.