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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.gsl.net!uwm.edu!msunews!gvsu!river.it.gvsu.edu!behrensm From: behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Difference between rlogin and telnet Date: 6 Jun 1997 12:30:08 GMT Organization: Grand Valley State University Lines: 24 Message-ID: <5n8vsg$909@news.gvsu.edu> References: <864993028.196308@reef.island.net.au> <5n7aco$osi@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: river.it.gvsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42517 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: : > > I know it causes me problems. My school's HP-UX machine doesn't know what : > > "cons25" is. : > : > Not surprising. You could always create a terminfo entry and : > submit it :) Or if HP-UX uses termcap, just ask your admin to : > add it (give him the entry from the FreeBSD termcap database). : Finally, you could opt for the pcvt driver on FreeBSD. ;-) : (The above scenario is actually one of _the_ reasons for the people : who use it. You can get away with a vt100 or vt220 entry on virtually : any toybox on this planet.) Actually, I had been using PCVT for a bit. I always wondered why the VT's were on Alt-F5 and above, though (I think that was it..) -- Matt Behrens Zigg Computer Services zigg@iserv.net http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/