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From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff)
Subject: Re: Tring to get termcap correct *&^
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David Lucas (odave@metapro.DIALix.oz.au) wrote:
: I am having a great deal of problems with getting Free-BSD
: 1.0.2.  I have a 386-DX 8Mb with BSD installed as binaries
: with some source.  

: The problem is I use my home machine to connect to work to
: do after hours work,  if i login on my machine as pc3 (SVGA
: running syscons) and logon to work all the screens and
: applications have control chars, don't update the screen
: correctly and generaly is a pain.

: What doI have to do to my termcap (or something else) to get
: the two talking.  Any help would be greatly apreciated, 

: Thanks in advance,

	It might not help in this instance, but you should probably try
using the cons25 entry in your ttys file.  It was written specifically
for the syscons console driver.  pc3 is a rather oddball termcap entry.

Steve



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