From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 10 7:56: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32FB37B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 642F343ED8 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 07:56:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b218.otenet.gr [212.205.244.226]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBAFtpOs009001; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:55:55 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBAFtpxQ002152; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:55:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBAFti2o002151; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:55:44 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:55:44 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Dick Hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage Message-ID: <20021210155544.GD1454@gothmog.gr> References: <20021209170914.GA1059@pooh.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021209170914.GA1059@pooh.nagual.st> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-12-09 18:09, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > A weird problem. I use 4.7FBSD and the standard teminal. I open a > ssh connection to a linux server, log into my account and run slrn > there to read some news.. Very often the screen gets messed up by > scrolling down or 'go past the end'. Parts of the old screen > information is stuck on screen. I have to close slrn ;-(( Same thing > happens in MC (midnight commander). This is a result of using cons25 as the terminal type, on machines that don't have a proper termcap/terminfo entry for FreeBSD consoles (all linux machines, for instance). I work around this by running screen locally (you can find it in the ports), and then setting TERM in my environment to vt220. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message