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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Terminal Types??
Date: 20 Nov 1996 21:50:24 -0000
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In article <848259518.27827@dejanews.com>,
	exuviae@intersurf.com writes:
: Is there anyway to change the Terminal type once you have 
: connected to a shell account??  I am dialining into the servers
: at work and trying to run vi, and irc, but they both say
: dumb terminal doesn't have full screen capabilities or something
: of that nature.  is there anyway i can set it to VT100 or 
: something that would allow full screen editing???

The TERM environment variable controls this - try either

TERM=vt100; export TERM

or

set TERM=vt100

depending on your shell.

-- 
Brian <brian%anorak.coverform.lan@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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