From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 19 00:52:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA08269 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 May 1997 00:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA08258 for ; Mon, 19 May 1997 00:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13232; Mon, 19 May 1997 09:51:32 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03757; Mon, 19 May 1997 09:47:16 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970519094716.XW27505@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <19970518230621.UF50902@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Patrick on May 19, 1997 11:27:34 +0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)