From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 2 6:40:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (mb-20-100.mitre.org [129.83.20.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB90737B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 06:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jandrese@mitre.org) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72DdgD02987; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:39:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB1 (mailhub1.mitre.org [129.83.20.31]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f72DdfX11650; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 09:39:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub1.mitre.org with SMTP id 7218666; Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:39:18 -0400 Message-ID: <3B69581D.B40756E@mitre.org> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:39:41 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Schweizer Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Telnet References: <3B3A719B@webmail.swiss-web.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Martin Schweizer wrote: > > Hello Jason > > >===== Original Message From Jason Andresen ===== > >> I would connect to my shell machine at otaku.freeshell.org. If I use telnet > >> from Win9x/WinNT/Win2k I've no problem to access. If I use telnet from > >> FreeBSD4.3 I can't correct steering my shell (some keys won't functions). I > >> changed also the TERM variable to vt100 without success (in this case the > >> command line from FreeBSD ist verry strange). What I doing wrong? > >> Thank you in advance. > > >How are you using telnet from the FreeBSD machine? Are you on the > >console > ... at the console > > >or are you in an xterm? > ... no, perhaps later > > The PC Console isn't a very good VT100 > >emulator, > >you need to use a mode like "pc-cons" or "pc-ansi" or "ansi" or "cons25" > >or "pccons" or whatever the remote system actually has for PC consoles. > In default FreeBSD uses cons25. If I use TERM=vt100 then I can not use all > keys and the screen has some strange caracters. > > >XTerms in general are halfway decent VT100 emulators, but using "xterm" > >is even better. > I will test it. > > >Windows telnet is a terrible emulator, but if you consider it to work > >with > >"no problems" as a vt100 terminal, then you should have no problem > >getting > >equivelent functionality out of FreeBSD with the right term variable. > Which is your prefered TERM variable for telnet access? Unfortunatly it takes a bit of experimentation if the remote system is not FreeBSD based. If it is a FreeBSD system, try setting TERM to whatever the local terminal is set for (assuming all of the keys work on the local terminal). -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message