From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 11 18:41:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA21523 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 18:41:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA21518 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 18:41:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id LAA07845; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 11:11:46 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971012111145.18206@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 11:11:45 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Hayton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term probs References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew Hayton on Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 09:24:15PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 09:24:15PM -0400, Matthew Hayton wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD-2.2.2 Release and am having problems > with the terminal type. For example, in order to connect to by friend's > linux box, i have to redefine the term type ('env def TERM vt100') under > telnet, otherwise the connection is refused. Really? That sounds like a bug to me. > When connecting to my school's sun workstations, applications like > pine, fail to page text properly (the very last line on the screen > is the only thing that changes). > > I've tried setting my term type from cons25 to vt100, however when > I do this, `clear` clears the screen but leaves the prompt in the middle > of the screen after it has been cleared. I've also tried using vt200, but > again connecting hosts don't seem to recognize this type and some > applications like vi and pine act wierd. > So, if anybody has any ideas or suggestions on what I could do to > correct this, I'd appreciate it. I believe that term type ansi is closer to cons25. Try that and see what happens. Greg