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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:55:44 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ssh+slrn screengarbage
Message-ID:  <20021210155544.GD1454@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20021209170914.GA1059@pooh.nagual.st>
References:  <20021209170914.GA1059@pooh.nagual.st>

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On 2002-12-09 18:09, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> 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.


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