From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 11 21:06:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA26859 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:06:12 -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 VAA26850 for ; Sat, 11 Oct 1997 21:06:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id NAA08292; Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:35:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971012133557.09865@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 13:35:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: jack Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term probs References: <19971012111145.18206@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from jack on Sat, Oct 11, 1997 at 10:11:30PM -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 10:11:30PM -0400, jack wrote: > On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> 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. > > In Linux maybe. Sure. That's what I meant. > What happens is that Linux doesn't recognize cons25 and rather than > say so and ask for a TERM type (a la BSDI) it just refuses the > connection. It will do that with any TERM that isn't defined in its > termcap. Which RFC allows that? > Not very sociable, IMO. :) A bug IMO. Greg