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Date:      Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:08:06 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Scott Cotton <scott@chronis.pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: consoles terminals q
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909071507260.6392-100000@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990907171537.A97565@chronis.pobox.com>

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my suggestion is to install "screen" it's a vt100 emulator with
a lot of nifty features, it's in the ports tree under misc/screen.

good luck,
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer
   - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net]


On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Scott Cotton wrote:

> I have the sc console driver installed with FreeBSD3.2 on an intel box, and
> whenever a user logs in to a console, the terminal type is 'cons25', which
> breaks many programs.  Setting the session to use other things, such as vt100,
> dec-vt100, etc helps but none of these things are acting quite right.  The
> problem is only for users logged into the console. 
> 
> Any hints on how to fix this?
> 
> scott
> 
> 
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