Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 09:17:21 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Telnet Message-ID: <3B6AA461.CB44CF54@mitre.org> References: <3B3A719B@webmail.swiss-web.com> <3B69581D.B40756E@mitre.org> <20010802225924.A1023@pc-service.ch>
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Martin Schweizer wrote: > > I test all the above terms with no success (results was allways the same)! I test it also in KDE2 (xterm). > There it was much more better then under the console. How can resovle this? > If you would I can e-mail you off-topic my account information at > otaku.freeshell.org. How are you setting TERM? Where are you setting TERM? If you run echo $TERM does it show the right thing? You should see a difference with the grieviously wrong terminal settings. Do you have the same behavior with TERM=dumb? If so, either you are setting the variable in the wrong place (it needs to be set on the remote machine, not on the local one for telnet to work), or the environment on the remote machine is broken. > > > >Windows telnet is a terrible emulator, but if you consider it to work > > > >with > > > >"no problems" as a vt100 terminal, then you should have no problem > > > >getting > > > >equivelent functionality out of FreeBSD with the right term variable. > > > Which is your prefered TERM variable for telnet access? > > > > Unfortunatly it takes a bit of experimentation if the remote system is > > not > > FreeBSD based. > > > > If it is a FreeBSD system, try setting TERM to whatever the local > > terminal > > is set for (assuming all of the keys work on the local terminal). -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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