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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2002 09:17:23 -0300
From:      Ronan Lucio <ronanl@melim.com.br>
To:        William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Error on Terminal
Message-ID:  <20020618091723.28d9a774.ronanl@melim.com.br>
In-Reply-To: <20020616162038.E37028-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com>
References:  <20020617195913.7a48c962.ronanl@melim.com.br> <20020616162038.E37028-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com>

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William,

> donkey terminal = dumb terminal in English.  Also a "serial console".

Thank you,
 
> >
> > Ok, when a user logs in, such terminal open a telnet section
> > on a FreeBSD Internet Server where the user execute the pine
> > program.
> 
> Serial console -> AIX -> telnet Freebsd, right?

Right.
 
> > If I log in with telnet from a PC running windows, it works fine
> > but, from the donkey terminals it gives me the following errors:
> >
> > When I execute pine, it says:
> > "Can't open terminal capabilities database"
> >
> > When I execute vi, it says:
> > "No terminal database found"
> >
> > Does anyone knews what could it be?
> 
> FreeBSD console oddness.  I think FreeBSD expects the $TERM variable to
> be something different to what AIX says it is.
> 
> If AIX uses sh (that is, bourne shell) try:
> 
> $ TERM=cons25
> $ export TERM
> $ telnet freebsd.host.name

Thank you very much William,
I've solved my problem... :-)

Ronan

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