From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 12:30:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plethora.cs.wustl.edu (plethora.cs.wustl.edu [128.252.165.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09672 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jxh@localhost) by plethora.cs.wustl.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA01088; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:30:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:30:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610201930.OAA01088@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> From: James Hu To: Randall Raemon Cc: sue@welearn.com.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt100 mysteries In-Reply-To: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com> References: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Problems with cons25/cons50 and telnet to hosts that don't understand them ] Randall Raemon writes: > In message <199610201644.CAA24862@mail.zip.com.au> > "Sue Blake" writes >> What I want to do: Telnet (or dial even) in to my shell account and >> use apps there, like I used to do from DOS dial-in or win/os2 >> PPP-telnet. > I found there are two solutions: recompile your kernel to use the pcvt > console driver (which gives FreeBSD a vt100 look), or have your dialup > speak cons25 thru updating your termcap/terminfo information. Another alternative is to run a program which emulates vt100 for you: screen. It is available as a package in the misc hierarchy as screen-3.7.1.tgz If you use alot, you will probably want to create a .screenrc which will remap the screen command key to something else. (I remap it to myself). So, you could alias telnet to ``screen telnet'' and things should work. -- James