From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 16 17:30:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16476 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:30:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16452 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA23191; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:30:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Steve Goldfield cc: support@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems Telnetting to My Best Account from Sun Workstation 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 Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Steve Goldfield wrote: > Hello, I was referred to you by Best support. I have an account at Best, > which says they are > using FreeBSD software. I work at Sun Microsystems where I am using a Sun > Ultra 1 workstation > running (I think) Solaris 2.5.1 and CDE. Since I switched from OpenWindows > (sun-cmd) to CDE > (dtterm), I've had a lot of difficulty using vi when telnetting into my > Best account. I found a > dtterm entry in /etc/termcap on the Best server, but my visual display in > vi is pretty garbled. > Can you shed any light on why that is and what I can do to fix it? I've > experimented with > different environment variables but have been unable to find a combination > that clears up the > problem. Try doing setenv TERM vt100 in your shell prompt. This uses a more generic terminal profile that may work with dtterm. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major