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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0R and SLIP trouble/vt100 trouble
Date: 21 Jan 95 18:14:46 GMT
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In <3flel8$d84@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu> nlawson@phoenix.csc.calpoly.edu (Nathan Lawson) writes:

>One other problem:  the consoles in F*BSD don't support vt100 codes, so
>every time I use a school site that does, codes like "1h" appear on the screen. 
>What term types are the consoles and how could I make them vt100 compatible?

There is an alternate driver 'pcvt' available which emulates a vt100/vt220.
Have a look at a comp.sources.misc archive. A new version will appear rsn.

hellmuth
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