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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: TERM Problem
To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop)
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 14:01:25 +0600 (ESD)
Cc: patrick@popper.paradigm2000.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG,
        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
In-Reply-To: <l03020900afa597cf4378@[194.32.164.2]> from "Bob Bishop" at May 19, 97 06:47:19 am
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> 
> Hi,
> 
> At 4:27 +0100 19/5/97, Patrick wrote:
> >On Sun, 18 May 1997, J Wunsch wrote:
> >>[elided]
> >Hi
> >   Thank's for the reply. My problem is that every time I connect my
> >FreeBSD box to the ICL/DRS6000 Unix. Keyboard setting, vi, and screen
> >display cannot operate poperly. I know the term use in ICL/DRS6000 is
> >vt220 and hence I set the FreeBSD box to vt220 before connecting to the ICL.
> >But still it cannot work. I did not have any problem when connecting to
> >any other hosts using freebsd.
> >
> >Can you help?
> 
> Possibly I can - I have a DRS6000 running upstairs. But first:
> 
> Which version of FreeBSD are you running?
> 
> Are you running X on your FreeBSD box, or are you working from the raw console?
> 
> When you say 'connected', what do you mean precisely? Telnet?
> 
> Precisely what do you mean by "Keyboard setting, vi, and screen display
> cannot operate poperly"? Does the display get confused, or is it just that
> erase and kill don't work?

By the way, I use FreeBSD to connect to ICL TeamServer. I just
converted the description of `cons25' into terminfo and use
it almost without problems (I have little problems only with
sysadmin menu shell).

-SB