Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:47:16 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: patrick@popper.paradigm2000.com (Patrick) Subject: Re: TERM Problem Message-ID: <19970519094716.XW27505@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970519112649.19406C-100000@popper.paradigm2000.com>; from Patrick on May 19, 1997 11:27:34 %2B0800 References: <19970518230621.UF50902@uriah.heep.sax.de> <Pine.LNX.3.91.970519112649.19406C-100000@popper.paradigm2000.com>
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As Patrick wrote: > 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. You haven't understood how the TERM variable works: you cannot simply set it to whatever you like, you gotta set it to whatever your local terminal type is. In case of the stock FreeBSD console, that's ``cons25'', and that's quite a little different from ``vt220''. It is unlikely that your remote system understands this terminal type however. You might give it a try whether you can work with ``scoterm'' or ``ansi'' or such. Failing this, you should really have a look at the pcvt driver option. It emulates as much of a vt220 as is possible with a plain VGA adapter (i.e. basically everything except double-height or double-width characters). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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