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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:59:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Paul Dekkers <Paul.Dekkers@cgu.ml.org>
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Subject: Re: HELP! TERMCAP Problems?
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On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have some problems with my termcap I think, logging in using ncsa
> telnets, I got two newlines instead of just one newline when pressing
> enter.
> E.g. when starting pine I press enter and then I'm already in the first
> message, starting up an editor results in a first newline...
> 
> What do I have to do?
> The TERM-variable is set to vt100
> I use FreeBSD 2.2.1

This is probably in NCSA telnet -- you need to tell it not to send CR/LF
but just send CR.  (?)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major