From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 28 18:46:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA04039 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id SAA04033 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 1997 18:46:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id LAA06385; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:45:55 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id LAA07641; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:15:44 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970829111544.25363@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:15:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Jay.Erickson@ibm.net Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: tty types References: <34058359.E7E0DC8D@ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: <34058359.E7E0DC8D@ibm.net>; from Jay Erickson on Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 08:55:38AM -0500 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 08:55:38AM -0500, Jay Erickson wrote: > When I telnet to my FreeBSD boxes with WFW's telnet or WIN95's telnet vi and > more don't seem to work right. When I use vi or vim the first thing I notice > is the arrow keys don't work. So I use the hjkl keys, no big problem. but when > I get to the bottom of the page it doesn't scroll up, just the bottom line > changes. I get similar results when I hit the return key in more. You need to set the TERM environment variable to correspond with the emulation you are using on your Microsoft machine. That may not solve all the problems: I have yet to see a completely correct terminal emulation on a Microsoft machine. Greg