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Date:      Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:45:03 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Andreas Mutschlechner <amutsch@abaid.com>
To:        Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tty config
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004132142360.1094-100000@wap.sam.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004131220480.302-100000@grace.speakeasy.org>

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hello,

you can set your terminaltype in the TERM environment variable.
with csh use setenv TERM vt100
with bash i think export TERM=vt100
you can put this commands in the .login script on the isp host.

greetings 

andreas


On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Joseph Wright wrote:

> My ISP provides me with a unix shell account.  It's very cool, as it has allowed
> me to use ssh, which was easy and fun to set up.
> The problem I have is not being able to use some programs like pine or vi 
> over the account because it doesn't recognize my terminal type,
> cons25.  
> However, it works fine from an xterm, because I'm writing from it now.
> What type should I set in /etc/ttys?  I suppose I should just choose of the
> virtual terminals to configure and always use that one when logging in to my
> ISP.  Correct?
> 
> 
> 
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