From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 19 01:04:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13311 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:04:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA13306 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 08:04:29 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA07325; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:04:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 01:04:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Elliot Finley cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: screen control question In-Reply-To: <353c844e.35647491@castlenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Elliot Finley wrote: > Hello, > When I telnet in to my machine (2.2.6 stable), and I use 'less' > to look at a file, I'm unable to use the arrow keys or enter key to > scroll one line at a time. But if I then use 'view' to look at a > file, it changes something because 'less' starts working, and it keeps > working until I logout and back in. I don't see anything being > changed in the ENVIRONMENT variables. I'm using the telnet client > that comes with IE 4.0 and it's emulating a vt100. The Windows Telnet client, in a word, sucks. It has a horrendous emulation. I bet it's getting confused by something and running `view' (aka vi) resets the mappings. I suggest getting a real telnet client, like QVT/Term or TeraTerm. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message