Date: Sat, 11 Oct 1997 22:11:30 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term probs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971011220518.5204A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <19971012111145.18206@lemis.com>
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 09:24:15PM -0400, Matthew Hayton wrote:
> > I recently installed FreeBSD-2.2.2 Release and am having problems
> > with the terminal type. For example, in order to connect to by friend's
> > linux box, i have to redefine the term type ('env def TERM vt100') under
> > telnet, otherwise the connection is refused.
>
> Really? That sounds like a bug to me.
In Linux maybe. What happens is that Linux doesn't recognize cons25 and
rather than say so and ask for a TERM type (a la BSDI) it just refuses the
connection. It will do that with any TERM that isn't defined in its
termcap.
Not very sociable, IMO. :)
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