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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed5.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problem with Telnet Date: 18 Apr 1997 21:31:42 -0400 Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 38 Sender: joelh@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <sejn2qv6bnl.fsf@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <01bc4a2b$50901400$b69fbf82@dan.sdsu.edu> <5j4ba0$sjc$2@easystreet03> <5j56go$8j1@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39311 >>> I was wondering if someone could help me solve this problem I just recently >>> started having with my FreeBSD box. When I use my win95 box to log into my >> Edit your .profile file in your home directory and put the >> following lines in it: >> TERM=vt100 >> export TERM > Eek, no. Read my other post in this thread. telnet negotiates the value > of your TERM variable according to what the client wants. The client > should be configured with the correct TERM value, not the server. > The best you should do in a profile is set TERM *only* if it's not > already set. But Win95 Telnet doesn't do that. It doesn't allow you to tell it what type of term to emulate. I have three suggestions: 1) Type stty rows 25 ; export TERM=vt100 as the first thing after logging in. 2) Add the line case $TERM in ansi) TERM=vt100; stty rows 25;; esac to your .profile (or .bashrc). 3) Download a better terminal program. I like CRT myself; check out http://www.tucows.com/ for it and others. Best, joelh -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped