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Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 13:58:00 +0100
From: Dominic Mitchell <hdm@mistral.co.uk>
To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD Console
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:44:10AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 10:00:18AM -0500, Sean Kelly wrote:
> > and productive, but I have one problem.  We have many HP/UX machines, and
> > I am constantly connecting to them.  I can't find a terminal type on
> > HP/UX that matches the FreeBSD console exactly.  'ansi' appears to be close,
> 
> Run ``screen'' (pkg_add -r screen) on the FreeBSD console.  Then set your
> TERM=vt100 and connect to the HP-UX box.  Make sure TERM=vt100 there.
> All should work fine.

An alternative is to take a copy of the cons25 entries from
/usr/share/misc/termcap and use captoinfo(1) on the HP-UX box to
translate from termcap to terminfo.  Then use tic(1) to compile them
(you may need to be root at this point - or set TERMINFO to point
somewhere you have write access to).

After that, HPUX should recognise the FreeBSD console type, "cons25".

A final alternative might be to recompile your kernel with pcvt instead
of syscons.  That'll give you a vt220 by default.  But I'm not sure how
well supported that is these days (probably fine; I just haven't heard
of anyone using it in a while).

-Dom


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