From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 22:39:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F93537B40B for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:39:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f8H5dO618531; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:39:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Gary W. Swearingen" , "Bela Bartok" Cc: Subject: RE: term Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 22:39:24 -0700 Message-ID: <009701c13f3b$1befb840$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Gary W. >Swearingen >Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 10:17 PM >To: Bela Bartok >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: term > > >Bela Bartok writes: > >> hi, i often telnet to solaris and aix boxes, and i >> always have problems with terminal emulation, for >> example, i telnet to sunos and i cant run pico. >> I would like to know how can i set up my freebsd box >> to be as generic as possible? my term variable is set >> to term=cons25 which is freebsd default.Should i >> change it? > >i dont know this from experience but from what I read im guessing that >your solaris and aix boxes need to have cons25 entries in their terminal >capability data bases maybe termcap or some other name terminfo i forget on some >nonfreebsd systems i think your applications need to know how to talk >with your terminal or emulator > What you have to do is get the cons25 term entry from the /etc/termcap file on FreeBSD, copy it to your Solaris system, then run captoinfo on it under Solaris followed by tic. I'll leave you to the various man pages to figure things out from there. What you might consider is instead of running the regular text console, is running X Windows and running a terminal window on the desktop and telnetting to the other systems from that. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message