Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 04:10:56 -0800 (PST) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: zera holladay <zera_holladay@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cons25 and xterm Message-ID: <20040130040828.Q78161-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20040129231637.28637.qmail@web41408.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, zera holladay wrote: > Hello, when I ssh to my school Unix account > (unfortunately solaris) from my local host's command > line and when I attempt to clear the screen, I get an > error message from the remote host: `cons25`: unknown > terminal type. The remote host is $TERM=xterm. My > local machine is FreeBSD's default $TERM=cons25. Once you've logged into the Solaris box: setenv TERM sun or whatever equivalent is appropriate for your shell. This works for me logging into Sun and SGI boxes from a FreeBSD console. You can also set it to vt100, but type sun appears to be slightly more SCO compatibile to me. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>
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