Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:10:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Chris Coleman <chris@bb.cc.wa.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: set term = vt100 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970825210443.2930Q-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.970825165312.27572A-100000@bb.cc.wa.us>
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Chris Coleman wrote: > I get the message "you term of type "dialup" does not have the features to > run 'pine'" I know I can type set term = vt100 to make it work. > > But how to I automate it so that I don't have to type it in by hand, short > of putting that line in the .login script .login is okay. > What I want is the correct way to make it know that types 'ansi' 'dialup' > and 'unknown' are really 'vt100' and if I used a different type of > connection it would recognize it for what it was. You'd have to hack /etc/termcap and add aliases for `dialup' to `vt100'. Find the `dialup' profile in there and change :tc=unknown: to :tc=vt100: Changing `ansi' is a bit tougher since it's intentionally pessimistic and since the vt100 commands aren't part of the ANSI terminal standard. For those people, have them put `set term=vt100' into .login, or convince their terminals to use a different terminal type and/or response string. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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