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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 21:10:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: set term = vt100
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On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Chris Coleman wrote:

> I get the message "you term of type "dialup" does not have the features to
> run 'pine'"  I know I can type set term = vt100 to make it work.
> 
> But how to I automate it so that I don't have to type it in by hand, short
> of putting that line in the .login script

.login is okay.

> What I want is the correct way to make it know that types 'ansi' 'dialup'
> and 'unknown' are really 'vt100'  and if I used a different type of
> connection it would recognize it for what it was.

You'd have to hack /etc/termcap and add aliases for `dialup' to
`vt100'.

Find the `dialup' profile in there and change

:tc=unknown:

to 

:tc=vt100:

Changing `ansi' is a bit tougher since it's intentionally pessimistic and
since the vt100 commands aren't part of the ANSI terminal standard.  For
those people, have them put `set term=vt100' into .login, or convince
their terminals to use a different terminal type and/or response string. 

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