Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 19:22:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Dekkers <Paul.Dekkers@cgu.edusurf.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Terminals under FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029192115.16920G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971029201932.379B-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote: > I'd say I'm not happy with the terminal (termcap/telnetd e.d.) under > FreeBSD... When telnetting from a FreeBSD host to another host I often get > problems... (e.g. on an digital unix I get some l3's and enters instead of > just enters, and sometimes the char's start at the wrong place (e.g. with > elm the prompt is in the word right in front of the prompt)) If you're using the console, the console (aka syscons) isn't truly vt100 compatible, so sometimes you see some artifacts. The screen program is vt100 compatible and adds some funky features. > And when > telnetting TO a FreeBSD host I don't get problems that often, but > especially when telnetting from a DOS machine (with NCSA telnet) I get > double enters... Can't something be done on that problem!? Supposedly, this was found in the telnetd on FreeBSD and fixed. What version of FreeBSD are you on? I've never had this happen to me on my machines, FWIW. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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