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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 13:15:41 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Jochen Solbrig <Jochen.Solbrig@urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cons25 error (picobsd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811231312590.158-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <199811212349.AAA41444@aixterm11.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>

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On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Jochen Solbrig wrote:

> hello!
> 
> i just installed picobsd 0.41 (dialup), set up networking via
> an ethernet and tried to telnet into an aix server on the network.
> when calling elm on the aix system i got the termcap error
> "can't find termcap entry for cons25". 

cons25 is specific to FreeBSD - I think it's very close to "ansi" on other
systems.

> first i checked /etc/ttys on the picobsd floppy which contained 
> all the cons25 entries but i found out that the termcap file
> on the aix system didn't contain any cons25 entry.
> 
> i then set the TERM variable to "vt100" and it worked. (though
> there are still some errors). a little bit confusing is that
> telnet -e vt100 breaks while entering the password on the aix
> system. 

You mean: dumps core? It's probable, because there is no vt100 entry in
the stripped version of termcap on the floppy. Perhaps it's too
stripped, though... :-(

Andrzej Bialecki

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