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From: jhupp@black.gensys.com (Jeff Hupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Setting terminal type , Livingston Portmaster
Date: 1 Apr 1996 02:02:46 GMT
Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users
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To: kschafer@cyberbeach.net (Kurt Schafer)

In article <960331.165921.2841@banshee.uunet.ca>,
	kschafer@cyberbeach.net (Kurt Schafer) writes:
>
>I have users to my system who are trying to access one of my FreeBSD
>boxes from a Livingston Portmaster PM2E-30. 
>
>They can RLOGIN to the box OK, but when they try to use such things as
>Pine, TIN, etc they are getting a message saying that the programs
>cannot operate in 'Dumb Terminal' mode.
>
>How do I go about setting a terminal type of VT100 or ANSI for the
>shells ? (primarily CSH and TCSH)
>

	At the portmaster prompt, and to set them for all ports on the 
portmaster, enter `set all termtype vt100`  You will then have to 'save all'

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