From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 4 16:28:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.3/8.7.3) id QAA24794 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from vdp01.vailsystems.com (root@vdp01.vailsystems.com [207.152.98.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA24787 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 16:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from crocodile.vale.com (crocodile [204.117.217.147]) by vdp01.vailsystems.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA19639; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:28:26 -0600 (CST) Received: from jaguar (jaguar.vale.com [204.117.217.146]) by crocodile.vale.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA29599; Wed, 4 Dec 1996 18:28:26 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <32A6172A.3153@vailsys.com> Date: Wed, 04 Dec 1996 18:28:26 -0600 From: Hal Snyder Reply-To: hal@vailsys.com Organization: Vail Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: burchs@netxpress.com CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with win95 telnet References: <32A5BCB5.1825@netxpress.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Sean Burchell wrote: > I telnet from win95 using win95's telnet but I cannot find a good > termcap entry to use for win95 telnets vt100 emulation...could someone > please point me to the proper termcap entry or give me patches to an > existing vt100 termcap entry to help it work well with windows 95 > telnet? I am unable to find any information on this in the FAQs even > though I would think it would be desperately needed. The native telnet clients that ship with Win95 (or any other MS system) have been riddled with bugs for years, and show no sign of being fixed. There are better freeware and shareware telnet clients for Win32 - i.e. they exhibit better VT100 compliance than MS and don't lose track the output character queue pointers, don't get quite as mixed up when you change color or font, etc. I used to use EWAN, don't know if it's still available... Saying this, you will get best results telnetting from Win95 into a FreeBSD vt100 session if you do these two simple things: 1. grow you window to the largest possible size (you have to do this every time you open a telnet) 2. set terminal/preferences/buffer size to 24, not 25.