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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 1997 11:15:44 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jay.Erickson@ibm.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tty types
Message-ID:  <19970829111544.25363@lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <34058359.E7E0DC8D@ibm.net>; from Jay Erickson on Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 08:55:38AM -0500
References:  <34058359.E7E0DC8D@ibm.net>

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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



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