From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 15 11:16:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14313 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:16:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cody.usls.edu (www2.usls.edu [202.47.133.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14306 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:16:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (francis@localhost) by cody.usls.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00516; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:13:56 +0800 (PHT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 10:13:56 +0800 (PHT) From: Francis Vidal To: "Eric M. Johnston" cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: can't telnet to linux host In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 P G P key available at -- ftp://ftp.usls.edu/pub/pgpkeys/francis.pgp