From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 05:10:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA24520 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 05:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu (cjm2@autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.7.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA24485 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 05:09:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cjm2@localhost) by autarch.acsu.buffalo.edu (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA12620; Fri, 6 Sep 1996 08:09:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 08:09:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Christopher J. Michaels" To: Kent Vander Velden cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminal question In-Reply-To: <9609060805.AA23642@spiff.cc.iastate.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Kent, I have the same prblem as you and have found that the program 'screen' does (among many other things) vt100 emulation. IT works 99% of the time for me. If you are unfamiliar with 'screen' and what it does I suggest that you study the manpage before using it. IT can be found in the packages collection. If anyone has any better ideas let me know. On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Kent Vander Velden wrote: > > There is one small thing that bugs me about FreeBSD that I hope that > someone can help me with... :) > > My kernel is configured to use the sc console driver. > > When I login on the console and connect to a remote machine (telnet or > kermit) just many full screen text applications are just about useless. > I suspect this is due to the different terminal types. I use vt100 on > the remote side and cons25 on the local side. > > I have tried setting the local terminal type to vt100 but that did not > seem to help. The remote side does not have this cons25 type. > > In order to use vt100 emulation will I need to switch to the vt > console driver? I guess that I could give that anohter try but the last > time that I tried it I was more impressed with the sc console driver. > > For the time being I just have to startup X when I want to use > anything that uses the full screen. > > Thanks. > > --- > Kent Vander Velden > graphix@iastate.edu > -Christopher Michaels Student Consultant:645-3542 *************************************************************************** * E-Mail: cjm2@acsu.buffalo.edu * * Homepage: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~cjm2 * ***************************************************************************