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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Console terminal setup problems with tt++ Date: 2 Jul 1996 20:50:21 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4rc22d$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <slrn4tfof6.20i.bspring@j51.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bspring@j51.com (Brian Springstead) wrote: > I'm having all sorts of problems trying to get my TERM variable setup > correctly under BSD. My ISP runs under FreeBSD and in my shell account > I have my TERM set to vt100. Same setting at home on my Linux box and > everything works fine You don't have to set TERM to the terminal type of the host machine you're working on, but to what your _local_ terminal is emulating. If your local terminal emulates vt100, set this. If your local terminal emulates something else, use this one. FreeBSD's default cosole driver emulates an SCO console, but you won't always succeed in finding an appropriate TERM entry on all systems. You can alternatively use the pcvt console driver which emulates something in the line with a DEC vt100/vt220/vt320. Again, this refers to the machine *you are sitting on*. (It wasn't entirely clear to me whether this one is also FreeBSD or not.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)