From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 22:45: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from o200.swiss-web.com (o200.swiss-web.com [195.129.104.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5684C37B409 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 22:44:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from info@pc-service.ch) Received: from webmail.swiss-web.com ([195.129.104.120]) by o200.swiss-web.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 127-60292U6000L600S0V35) with ESMTP id com; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:45:15 +0200 X-WebMail-UserID: pc-service Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:44:55 +0200 From: Martin Schweizer To: Jason Andresen Cc: freebsd-stable X-EXP32-SerialNo: 00002676 Subject: RE: Telnet Message-ID: <3B3A719B@webmail.swiss-web.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello Jason >===== Original Message From Jason Andresen ===== >> I would connect to my shell machine at otaku.freeshell.org. If I use telnet >> from Win9x/WinNT/Win2k I've no problem to access. If I use telnet from >> FreeBSD4.3 I can't correct steering my shell (some keys won't functions). I >> changed also the TERM variable to vt100 without success (in this case the >> command line from FreeBSD ist verry strange). What I doing wrong? >> Thank you in advance. >How are you using telnet from the FreeBSD machine? Are you on the >console ... at the console >or are you in an xterm? ... no, perhaps later The PC Console isn't a very good VT100 >emulator, >you need to use a mode like "pc-cons" or "pc-ansi" or "ansi" or "cons25" >or "pccons" or whatever the remote system actually has for PC consoles. In default FreeBSD uses cons25. If I use TERM=vt100 then I can not use all keys and the screen has some strange caracters. >XTerms in general are halfway decent VT100 emulators, but using "xterm" >is even better. I will test it. >Windows telnet is a terrible emulator, but if you consider it to work >with >"no problems" as a vt100 terminal, then you should have no problem >getting >equivelent functionality out of FreeBSD with the right term variable. Which is your prefered TERM variable for telnet access? -- PC-Service M. Schweizer Gewerbehaus Schwarz CH-8608 Bubikon ZH Tel. +41 55 243 30 00 Fax. +41 55 243 33 22 www.pc-service.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message