From owner-freebsd-questions  Tue Nov 28 12:27:18 1995
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA02334
          for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:27:18 -0800
Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA02305
          for <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 12:26:58 -0800
Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA21960; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:22:24 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Message-Id: <199511282022.NAA21960@phaeton.artisoft.com>
Subject: Re: Annoying console (I want it like Linux)
To: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 13:22:24 -0700 (MST)
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199511280436.XAA09196@solar.os.com> from "Craig Shrimpton" at Nov 27, 95 11:36:50 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Length: 879       
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk

> Perhaps someone can direct me to the proper terminal type to avoid some
> annoying behaviour.  When I telnet to a remote box to read mail, executing
> Pine will reverse my console.  I.e. black letters, white background.  I have
> to execute colorls to reset it.  This does not happen when I telnet to the
> mail machine from my Linux box.  What is the correct TERM setting for
> FreeBSD 2.1.0's console to act like a Linux console.
> 
> The default console (Con25) is fine for local work but not so good when
> telnetting. (except to another FreeBSD box) 

Attribute and color state are not maintained seperately.  This is a known
bug in the ANSI emulation (I've disassembled both VTxxx and the SCO and
i386 UNIX console drivers before).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.