From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 20 16:18:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA01440 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aak.anchorage.net (ai-129.anchorage.net [207.14.72.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA01429 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 16:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (abc@localhost) by aak.anchorage.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11039; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:06:38 -0800 (AKDT) X-Authentication-Warning: aak.anchorage.net: abc owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 15:06:38 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@aak.anchorage.net To: Kevin Eliuk cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Terminal Types - Why? 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 Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Kevin Eliuk wrote: > I've R'edTFM, (except the ones I am going to be told I didn't) but I > haven't come up with an answer. Is vt100, etc. a terminal option or > settings for different terminal types? IMHO - a "display protocol" (ie, terminal emulation). i think originally, these were hardware, termcap allows you to emulate, through software protocols, the orignal hardware. try to set TERM-vt100, then open a manual page! shouldn't this work? > My equip. is a VGMonochrome with a oti-037 256k video card. Of course > I am using cons25 and am not using X-Anything. ------------------------------------------------- FingerPrint BA09868C 1B995204 58410FD3 A5E7B2DA http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/way/7747 -------------------------------------------------