From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 4 12: 9:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F04BB37BAF8 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:09:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pherman@frenchfries.net) Received: from bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (dial-195-14-251-182.netcologne.de [195.14.251.182]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA21130; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:09:37 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (localhost.security.at12.de [127.0.0.1]) by bagabeedaboo.security.at12.de (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e64J9Mj00848; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:09:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 21:09:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Paul Herman To: Gian-Carlo Baldarelli Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Telnet In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Gian-Carlo Baldarelli wrote: > when I try to telnet to a linux server via BSD and I start a vi session I > got > > TERM=cons25 unknow > > any solutions ???? Solution 1: Change the TERM variable to "ansi". I should be similar enough to get you around on the screen. Solution 2: Insert the cons25 and cons25w termcap entries (/etc/termcap) into the termcap file on the linux server. -Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message