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From: Rotaru Razvan <roti_343@yahoo.com>
Subject: terminal incompatibility
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Hello,

Well this is just another mail about a problem i think a lot of people
have. As i noticed by default terminals in bsd are named cons25. My
problem? no compatibility with linux terminals (or with xterm). 
First of all some console applications behave different in cons25 and
xterm (for instance sysinstall: is colorful and nice in cons25, b&w and
totally messed up un xterm). Vim has problems with the keyboard
(doesn't recognize "up arrow" ,"down arrow" ...). Midnight Commander is
b&w in cons25. 
So you see a lot of problems with these terminals. Generally I think
they arise because most of applications where not designed for bsd
terminals. 
I figured out a solution may be to make all terminals linux-type
(assuming that I use most of the time, linux-terminal applications. So
I edited /etc/ttys

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