Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 14:55:00 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: cjm2@ACSU.Buffalo.EDU (Christopher J. Michaels) Cc: graphix@iastate.edu (Kent Vander Velden), questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminal question Message-ID: <199609061255.OAA21009@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960906080703.12421A-100000@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu>; from Christopher J. Michaels on Sep 6, 1996 8:09:54 -0400 References: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960906080703.12421A-100000@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu>
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Christopher J. Michaels writes: > Kent, > I have the same prblem as you and have found that the program 'screen' > does (among many other things) vt100 emulation. IT works 99% of the time > for me. > If you are unfamiliar with 'screen' and what it does I suggest that you > study the manpage before using it. IT can be found in the packages > collection. > If anyone has any better ideas let me know. > > On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > > > > There is one small thing that bugs me about FreeBSD that I hope that > > someone can help me with... :) > > > > My kernel is configured to use the sc console driver. > > > > When I login on the console and connect to a remote machine (telnet or > > kermit) just many full screen text applications are just about useless. > > I suspect this is due to the different terminal types. I use vt100 on > > the remote side and cons25 on the local side. You may snip out the pc3 or cons25 TERMCAP entry and put it either into your .login on the remote site or ask the system administrator to add that terminal type into /etc/termcap. > > > > I have tried setting the local terminal type to vt100 but that did not > > seem to help. The remote side does not have this cons25 type. > > > > In order to use vt100 emulation will I need to switch to the vt > > console driver? I guess that I could give that anohter try but the last > > time that I tried it I was more impressed with the sc console driver. > > > > For the time being I just have to startup X when I want to use > > anything that uses the full screen. > > > > Thanks. > > > > --- > > Kent Vander Velden > > graphix@iastate.edu > > > > -Christopher Michaels Student Consultant:645-3542 > *************************************************************************** > * E-Mail: cjm2@acsu.buffalo.edu * > * Homepage: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cjm2 * > *************************************************************************** > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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