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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with Telnet
Date: 21 Apr 1997 10:31:45 GMT
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In article <sejn2qv6bnl.fsf@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu>,
Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> writes:
>>>> 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.
This is what I expect from Microsoft - they hardcode a TERM=ansi
negotiation.
> 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 option. It's not usually a good idea to hack things so that
broken software can be supported :)
> Best,
> joelh
>
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !