From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 20 03:00:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA24871 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:00:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from darius.concentric.net (darius.concentric.net [207.155.184.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24866 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mcfeely.concentric.net (mcfeely [207.155.184.83]) by darius.concentric.net (8.8.5/(97/05/21 3.30)) id GAA00755; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 06:00:02 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from shag (ts002d02.sal-ut.concentric.net [206.173.156.38]) by mcfeely.concentric.net (8.8.5) id GAA16062; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 06:00:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33AA5456.D2A67641@concentric.net> Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 03:58:46 -0600 From: Joshua Fielden Organization: Shaggy Enterprises X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Howe CC: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: telnetting to RedHat4 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve Howe wrote: > > > Steve, > > Alrighty then... The cons25w was what we needed. Thanks. It appears > > to be working now. Please, would you verify it for me though? Maybe telnet > > and try "vi", "irc", and such.. See if they work ok... > > Don't worry about being a termcap expert! I think the only person > > who would claim to be an expert is the goof who invented the idea of 50 zillion > > different terminal types to begin with!!! =) Sheesh... Couldn't we all just > > agree on one! " VT-100 FOR EVERYONE!!! " (Ahh, but I guess I'm a dreamer!) > > Hahaha > > > > >sorry - i was trying to be brief! here's the cons?? entries, > > >minus the russian stuff ... thanks again. > > i gave my freebsd cons25/50 entries to my RehHat4 > isp, but i still get "connection closed by foreign host" > when telnet-ing. i can ftp/http/etc, and can even telnet > from an xterm. I can't even get it to work through an XTerm, but I have cons25 as a specified environment variable... I too passed on my termcap entries for cons25 and nothing changed. :( -- SCSI is *not* magic. There are many technical reasons why it is occasionally nessicary to sacrifice a small goat to your SCSI chain. --Joshua Fielden