Date: 14 Apr 2000 01:32:05 +0200 From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tty config Message-ID: <8d5ldl$22me$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0004131220480.302-100000@grace.speakeasy.org>
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Joseph Wright <rjoseph@speakeasy.org> wrote:
> The problem I have is not being able to use some programs like pine or vi
> over the account because it doesn't recognize my terminal type,
> cons25.
> What type should I set in /etc/ttys?
"cons25" (or "cons25l1"), of course. The ISP's box not recognizing
this terminal type is a problem on said ISP's box, not on your
machine, and it's preferable to fix problems at their source.
Alfred's already provided two suggestions. Personally, I tend to
look for a syscons-compatible terminal type that is supported on
those target machines which don't know about cons25*, and I set
TERM appropriately in the remote ~/.profile:
case $TERM in
cons25*) TERM=at386 ;;
esac
syscons is largely compatible to the SCO console, which should be
available under some name on most machines. It's "at386" on Solaris,
"scoansi" on some Linux distros.
--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de
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