Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 13:47:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Andreas Mutschlechner <amutsch@abaid.com> Cc: Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tty config Message-ID: <20000413134737.B4381@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004132142360.1094-100000@wap.sam.com>; from amutsch@abaid.com on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 09:45:03PM %2B0000 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004131220480.302-100000@grace.speakeasy.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004132142360.1094-100000@wap.sam.com>
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> 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? > > * Andreas Mutschlechner <amutsch@abaid.com> [000413 13:15] wrote: > 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. > Sorry, you're both wrong. A simple solution is to get the ISP to add a cons25 entry to thier termcap (it's in your /etc/termcap). Another solution is to run screen (/usr/ports/misc/screen) locally and on the remote side setting your TERM enviorment variable to vt100. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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