From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 20:51:15 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 23 20:51:13 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2F237B400 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 20:51:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA09818; Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:50:32 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <003201c06d65$23d5c2f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Michael Scheidell" , References: <000701c06d61$39278340$0603a8c0@scheidell.org> Subject: Re: MS hyperterminal telnet Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2000 23:51:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I looked in faq' searched we site, search linux sites, ran vttest, and can't > seem to get hyperterminal to work on freebsd. > > don't know what emulation, what 'TERM' variable, etc > > cursor keys don't work, and 'slrn' inverts the screen colors and doesn't > ruren them back > > any suggestions on running a term emulator on microsloft 2k? The 'telnet' that ships with W2K supports ANSI. The 'telnet' that ships with W95, W98, WMe supports VT100 and ANSI. Thus, if you log into your FreeBSD machine using the W2K telnet, you need to do one of the following to get your terminal set up properly. If you're running /bin/sh as a shell: TERM=ansi export TERM tset If you're running /bin/csh as a shell: setenv TERM ansi tset -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message