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From: Jamie Bowden <bowden@cs.odu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem when using sc0 and telneting (terminal emulation totaly fubared
Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 12:56:37 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Old Dominion University
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On 6 May 1996, jaeger wrote:

> 	When logging into a Linux machine to use full-screen programs, I set
> my $TERM to "scoansi". This works fine, but are there other settings for
> other OSes? Some of us have noticed that Linux tends toward the
> unstandard...

when telnetting to: (these lines are t/csh based)

linux: setenv TERM linux
sun: setenv TERM sun
damn near anything else: setenv TERM vt100

You set these on the remote host after logging in, not in your freebsd 
console.

Jamie

I have my finger on the pulse of the planet.