From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 13 5:17:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3798737B503 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:17:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id FAA03564; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:17:31 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda03562; Fri Oct 13 05:17:16 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.11.0/8.9.1) id e9DCHEo05740; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdBN5732; Fri Oct 13 05:16:21 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.11.1/8.9.1) id e9DCGGr13344; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:16:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200010131216.e9DCGGr13344@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdY13337; Fri Oct 13 05:15:23 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE X-Sender: cy To: "Andrew Reilly" Cc: Doug Barton , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 16:57:02 +1100." <20001012165702.B9109@gurney.reilly.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 05:15:23 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001012165702.B9109@gurney.reilly.home>, "Andrew Reilly" writes: > Besides: arguing that Windows does telnet out of the box > isn't a terribly defensible position, because of the terrible > compatability of their "ANSI"/VT100 emulator. I even use > TeraTerm for telnet sometimes, just because you can actually run > vi and mutt through it. I've had no problems using Windows telnet with UNIX systems or vi. Reduce the Windows telnet screen size from 25 lines to 24 and explicitly set TERM to vt100 (it's autodetected as ansi: eval `tset -Q -s -m ansi:vt100`) and you'll find that Windows telnet works well enough to do meaningful work with it. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message