Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 07:44:55 +0200 From: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> To: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Telnet Message-ID: <3B3A719B@webmail.swiss-web.com>
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Hello Jason >===== Original Message From Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> ===== >> 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
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