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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: no "li" capability for dialup.
Date: 24 May 1996 21:49:30 GMT
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bv4qo@ms4.hinet.net (Reed Lai) wrote:

>     no "li" capability for dialup.
>     initscr failed.
>     dialup: terminal type lacks necessary features.
> 
> I am a new hand in Unix system.  How shall I do for this problem?
> Thanks for any help.

Figure out which terminal type your system is compatible to.
``vt100'' is a reasonable choice to start with.  Then:

	setenv TERM vt100  (in case of a csh)

or

	TERM=vt100; export TERM (in case of some Bourne-alike shell)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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