From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 21 11:11:14 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13994 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:11:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13989 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:11:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12468; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:12:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199901211912.OAA12468@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: Console emulation question In-Reply-To: from Jason Horn at "Jan 21, 99 08:06:56 am" To: jhorn@daytona.pi-inc.com (Jason Horn) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:12:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jason Horn wrote, > My last message has gone unanswered. Is it possible to change the > emulation of the console? I want to setup a 486 I have to act as a dumb > terminal. All it needs to do is run wy60 emulation at the console and > telnet into our main box. I've changed my TERM variable to wy60, but the > screen doesn't behave properly. What I'm hoping is there is a way to make > the console emulate wy60. Did you try changing the 'type' in /etc/ttys? If you are changing the TERM variable after the tty has been started, it won't do much. See, man ttys man getty man termcap man gettytab -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message