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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:12:47 +0100
From: nik@iii.co.uk
To: Jay.Erickson@ibm.net
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Subject: Re: tty types
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On Thu, Aug 28, 1997 at 08:55:38AM -0500, Jay Erickson wrote:
> When I telnet to my FreeBSD boxes with WFW's telnet or WIN95's telnet vi and
> more don't seem to work right. When I use vi or vim the first thing I notice
> is the arrow keys don't work. So I use the hjkl keys, no big problem. but when
> I get to the bottom of the page it doesn't scroll up, just the bottom line
> changes. I get similar results when I hit the return key in more. 

As a matter of course, when I telnet into my FreeBSD boxen using an MS
telnet I 

    setenv TERM vt100
    stty rows 25

as the first two things I do. This happens infrequently enough that I 
haven't bothered finding out what's wrong the MS emulation to try and cruft
together a workaround.

N
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