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To: Basket Case <jon@pcca71.gallaudet.edu>
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Subject: Re: cons25 being default terminal mode... Can that be changed? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Oct 1995 09:19:26 -0000."
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 23:34:17 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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Basket Case stands accused of writing in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.951017091729.494A-100000@pcca71.gallaudet.edu>:
>"cons25" is generally defaulted as the terminal mode when I log on via
>console and I would like to have that changed to something in the VT* series
>such as VT100, VT102, and so forth.  Is there any way to do this as I use
>telnet a lot and it's difficult to do things if terminal type isn't supported
>on other remote sites.

Try using ``ansi'' as the terminal type on the remote end. It's
generally recognised (although it doesn't seem to be recognised by the
AIX box I have access to).

Gary