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From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To: zera holladay <zera_holladay@yahoo.com>
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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, zera holladay wrote:

> Hello, when I ssh to my school Unix account
> (unfortunately solaris) from my local host's command
> line and when I attempt to clear the screen, I get an
> error message from the remote host: `cons25`: unknown
> terminal type.  The remote host is $TERM=xterm.  My
> local machine is FreeBSD's default $TERM=cons25.

Once you've logged into the Solaris box:

setenv TERM sun

or whatever equivalent is appropriate for your shell.  This works for me
logging into Sun and SGI boxes from a FreeBSD console.  You can also set
it to vt100, but type sun appears to be slightly more SCO compatibile to
me.

Jamie Bowden

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