Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:38:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Anders Nordby <anders@fix.no> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Terminal capabilities Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980701183659.26370Z-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980627134009.A132@totem.tihlde.hist.no>
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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Anders Nordby wrote: > Ever since I started off with FreeBSD, I've had trouble with termcap. It > started with NCFTP v2.4.2 (giving funny characters like $<$<2>2>> on the > screen with vt100 emulation). I was adviced to use vt220 emulation instead, > and so I did (not fixing anything). Later on I found problems with 'screen' > (the screen manager), giving me a jumpy display (when text scrolls up one > line, it is diaplayed one line above that for a short flash -- thus giving a > jumpy effect) with certain applications. I tried screen with vt100 and vt102 > in addition to the original screen one, not making a difference. I think this is NcFTP trying to be tricky, not any fault of FreeBSD. Syscons seems to like it okay but I've not found any terminal that actually supports it otherwise. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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