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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: vt100 terminal emulation from console
Date: 7 Oct 94 19:13:34 GMT
Organization: HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH
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In <372720$h87@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (The Almighty One) writes:

>	I am having some problems logging into systems from my FreeBSD box 
>from the console that only support vt100, is there anyway to get vt100 on
>the console without messing up the screen and since many sites don't support
>ansi or cons25, vt100 is the only way to go or vt102....  Any help would be
>appreciated.

Try the pcvt driver, it does VT220 emulation.

The current beta release is on:

        Host:        gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
        Address:     137.226.31.2
        Directory:   pub/incoming
        File:        pcvt-320b2.tar.gz
        Size:        275480 bytes

	Note: the file is invisible!

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
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