From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 8 20:58:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02271 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02229 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:58:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA02895; Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:58:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 20:58:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minicom In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 8 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > I've got a problem with minicom and hopefully someone might > have a suggestion or two that might help. Minicom works well > for me on Linux, whether in an RXVT when running X or from the > command line. On my 2.1.5, minicom only works properly when > run from a command prompt. Neither xminicom, or minicom run > in an xterm or rxvt session function as a proper VT100 when > running FreeBSD. There are dozens of applications running on > our VaxCluster, and access to our Lan servers that depend on > proper emulation of vt100 to be successful. Anybody know the > secrets to make this work properly? Use seyon. I guess it depends on how accurate you consider xterm to be as an vt100 emulator :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major