Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:30:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Steve Goldfield <stevesag@best.com> Cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems Telnetting to My Best Account from Sun Workstation Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970416172942.12317R-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <v02130500af782a93c683@[206.184.197.41]>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Steve Goldfield wrote: > Hello, I was referred to you by Best support. I have an account at Best, > which says they are > using FreeBSD software. I work at Sun Microsystems where I am using a Sun > Ultra 1 workstation > running (I think) Solaris 2.5.1 and CDE. Since I switched from OpenWindows > (sun-cmd) to CDE > (dtterm), I've had a lot of difficulty using vi when telnetting into my > Best account. I found a > dtterm entry in /etc/termcap on the Best server, but my visual display in > vi is pretty garbled. > Can you shed any light on why that is and what I can do to fix it? I've > experimented with > different environment variables but have been unable to find a combination > that clears up the > problem. Try doing setenv TERM vt100 in your shell prompt. This uses a more generic terminal profile that may work with dtterm. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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