Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:27:52 +0200 From: Martin Schweizer <pcservice.schweizer@spectraweb.ch> To: Wolfgang Zenker <wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org> Cc: Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch>, Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Telnet Message-ID: <20010808222752.D588@pc-service.ch> In-Reply-To: <m15TtsE-003pQ7C@lyxys.ka.sub.org>; from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:33:26AM %2B0200 References: <20010806232211.A457@pc-service.ch> <m15TtsE-003pQ7C@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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Hello Wolfgang Thanks for you tip. Yes, on my personal machines I will use putty. But a lot of my time I work on machines at my clients so I can't install everytime putty. On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:33:26AM +0200 Wolfgang Zenker wrote: > >>> [..]. My last question: > >>> I work on diffrent Windows machines and they only support vt100 or vt52 > >>> (terminal.exe). [..] > > >> If you can't get any of the available termcaps on the remote system > >> working > >> you have two options. > >> 1. Install a termcap (or terminfo) that supports your terminal. I have > >> no idea > >> how you would go about doing this in a Windows environment. > >> 2. Run X on your local machine, and use XTerms to talk to the remote > >> server, > >> using one of the VT100 modes (XTerms try to be VT102 emulators, but > >> VT100 > >> is usually close enough for most purposeses) > > Let me suggest a third option: Use "putty" (an open source windows-client > for telnet/rlogin/ssh) instead of terminal.exe. It has a quite good > Xterm emulation, and as extra bonus supports encrypted (ssh) connections. > > Wolfgang -- Regards Martin Schweizer <info@pc-service.ch> PC-Service M. Schweizer; Gewerbehaus Schwarz; CH-8608 Bubikon Tel. +41 55 243 30 00; Fax: +41 55 243 33 22; http://www.pc-service.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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