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Date:      Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:12:47 +0100
From:      nik@iii.co.uk
To:        Jay.Erickson@ibm.net
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: tty types
Message-ID:  <19970829101247.19280@strand.iii.co.uk>
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. 

As a matter of course, when I telnet into my FreeBSD boxen using an MS
telnet I 

    setenv TERM vt100
    stty rows 25

as the first two things I do. This happens infrequently enough that I 
haven't bothered finding out what's wrong the MS emulation to try and cruft
together a workaround.

N
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