Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:30:20 -0500 (CDT) From: James Hu <jxh@cs.wustl.edu> To: Randall Raemon <delta1@netcom.com> Cc: sue@welearn.com.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt100 mysteries Message-ID: <199610201930.OAA01088@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com> References: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com>
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[ Problems with cons25/cons50 and telnet to hosts that don't understand them ] Randall Raemon <delta1@netcom.com> writes: > In message <199610201644.CAA24862@mail.zip.com.au> > "Sue Blake" writes >> What I want to do: Telnet (or dial even) in to my shell account and >> use apps there, like I used to do from DOS dial-in or win/os2 >> PPP-telnet. > I found there are two solutions: recompile your kernel to use the pcvt > console driver (which gives FreeBSD a vt100 look), or have your dialup > speak cons25 thru updating your termcap/terminfo information. Another alternative is to run a program which emulates vt100 for you: screen. It is available as a package in the misc hierarchy as screen-3.7.1.tgz If you use <CNTRL-A> alot, you will probably want to create a .screenrc which will remap the screen command key to something else. (I remap it to <CNTRL-\> myself). So, you could alias telnet to ``screen telnet'' and things should work. -- James
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