From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 15:44:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xnet.com (quake.xnet.com [198.147.221.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2678637B40F for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from typhoon.xnet.com (typhoon.xnet.com [198.147.221.66]) by mail.xnet.com (8.9.3+Sun/XNet-3.0R) with ESMTP id RAA20585 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:44:33 -0500 (CDT) Received: by typhoon.xnet.com (Postfix, from userid 2228) id AC42B3869A; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:44:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:44:32 -0500 From: Dan Rench To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term Message-ID: <20010917174432.A13644@xnet.com> References: <20010917033143.59127.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010917033143.59127.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com>; from eugene_bartok@yahoo.com on Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:31:43PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:31:43PM -0700, Bela Bartok wrote: > hi, i often telnet to solaris and aix boxes, and i > always have problems with terminal emulation, for > example, i telnet to sunos and i cant run pico. > I would like to know how can i set up my freebsd box > to be as generic as possible? my term variable is set > to term=cons25 which is freebsd default.Should i > change it? Yes. I've had very good results with TERM=at386 on Solaris, at least. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message