From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 8 13:24:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obelix.spectraweb.ch (obelix.plusnet.ch [194.158.230.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D5C37B421 for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 13:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pcservice.schweizer@spectraweb.ch) Received: from pc-service.ch (tch-ls-3-dialup-195.spectraweb.ch [194.230.249.195]) by obelix.spectraweb.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id WAA14773; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:24:02 +0200 Received: (from martin@localhost) by pc-service.ch (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f78KRv300765; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:27:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pcservice.schweizer@spectraweb.ch) Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:27:52 +0200 From: Martin Schweizer To: Wolfgang Zenker Cc: Martin Schweizer , Jason Andresen , freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Telnet Message-ID: <20010808222752.D588@pc-service.ch> Reply-To: Martin Schweizer References: <20010806232211.A457@pc-service.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org on Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 01:33:26AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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