Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:13:56 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal <francis@cody.usls.edu> To: "Eric M. Johnston" <ejohnst@green.mail.postal.net> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: can't telnet to linux host Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970916101125.514A-100000@cody.usls.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970915125743.10576A-100000@green.mail.postal.net>
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On Mon, 15 Sep 1997, Eric M. Johnston wrote:
> Linux may be rejecting your term type of cons25. Try either setenv TERM
> vt100 or telnet from an xterm. Another alternative is just to use rlogin,
> which doesn't seem to have the strict limitations on term that telnet
> does.
>
> One other thing you might want to do is add cons25 to your Linux termcap.
> On my RedHat system, I think I just added cons25 as another name for
> scoansi and it seemed to work OK. This doesn't fix the telnet problem,
> but makes the terminal much nicer if you're rlogging in.
that explains why... thanks! hmmm... why does FreeBSD have cons25 while
linux machines do not? (by default; out of the box). i wonder why they
never made the /etc/termcap into a standard package.
i kinda like the cursors behave in linux -- how do i do that in FreeBSD?
--- FRANCIS VIDAL, USLSnet, University of St. La Salle, Bacolod City, PH
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