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From: jsw@ivgate.omahug.org (Jack Winslade)
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Subject: Re: TERM variable
To: sfriedri@laker.net
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 20:12:06 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199809170023.UAA16654@laker.net> from "Steve Friedrich" at Sep 16, 98 08:23:30 pm
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> But when I log in via telnet, my term gets set to ansi, and I have NO
> IDEA where that's getting set.  It appears that it ignores /etc/ttys in
> the case of pseudo ttys, because I changed:
[munch]
> to no avail.  Is there someplace I can set this default ??

It's negotiated during the telnet session startup.  Normally the value
stated by the client will be good.  You can override this with the
TERM=whatever;export TERM (setenv TERM whatever for csh) manually or in
a startup file.

Good day      JSW

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