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From: Patrick <patrick@popper.paradigm2000.com>
To: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: TERM Problem
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On Mon, 19 May 1997, Bob Bishop wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> At 4:27 +0100 19/5/97, Patrick wrote:
> >On Sun, 18 May 1997, J Wunsch wrote:
> >>[elided]
> >Hi
> >   Thank's for the reply. My problem is that every time I connect my
> >FreeBSD box to the ICL/DRS6000 Unix. Keyboard setting, vi, and screen
> >display cannot operate poperly. I know the term use in ICL/DRS6000 is
> >vt220 and hence I set the FreeBSD box to vt220 before connecting to the ICL.
> >But still it cannot work. I did not have any problem when connecting to
> >any other hosts using freebsd.
> >
> >Can you help?
> 
> Possibly I can - I have a DRS6000 running upstairs. But first:
> 
> Which version of FreeBSD are you running?

   It is 2.1.5

> 
> Are you running X on your FreeBSD box, or are you working from the raw console?
> 
   Just raw, but I plan to run X also. Could you tell more.

> When you say 'connected', what do you mean precisely? Telnet?
> 
   Yes, telnet.

> Precisely what do you mean by "Keyboard setting, vi, and screen display
> cannot operate poperly"? Does the display get confused, or is it just that
> erase and kill don't work?
> 
   Yes, display get confuse. You may know that DRS6000 has their fmli 
command. It is where the display in freebsd cannot work. Also vi a 
file also not display properly.

Thanks