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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!jove!mikye From: mikye@jove.acs.unt.edu (Myong In Kye) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: terminal problem Date: 12 Aug 1995 10:32:15 GMT Organization: University of North Texas Lines: 43 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <40hvvg$hgs@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <3vvq4i$sa5@abac.au.ac.th> NNTP-Posting-Host: jove.acs.unt.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] In article <3vvq4i$sa5@abac.au.ac.th>, Panaya R. <u3525850@au1.au.ac.th> wrote: >Hi... > I just installed 2.1.0-950726-SNAP last night. I have a problem, >when I use it to slip to my provider (Solaris), I found problem when run >a curses-based apps, such as irc or talk. For irc, it can clear screen, >the status is in correct place, but it won't scroll up, it stucks at >the bottommost line of the scroll region. For talk it works ok, until >I type ctrl-L for refresh screen, after refreshed, I typed more.. >then it will beyond the boundary of the window. Any hint? > > >Note: I use cons25 at FreeBSD, and vt100 at sun. When I changed to vt100 > it still have same problem > The machine used to installed Linux and NetBSD, it didn't have >this problem. > I had exactly the same problem. I tried several different combinations: vt100 (or vt102 etc) on the SunOS side and cons25 (or vt100 ...) on the FreeBSD side. But none of them worked. However, when I connect to the same Sun machine from my dos or os/2 (using kermit - I use kermit for all the OS's on my machine as the basic communication software), vt100 emulation works without glitches. But when dialing from FreeBSD to that sun machine, it leaves some glitches with several softwares on the sun machine. e.g., vi screen fails to refresh properly, leaves garbage characters after reading some documents using paging utilities, reverse video part in lynx gets messed up, elm leaves similar garbage characters like l1 or 7l, something like that, and arrow keys not working with vi (forced me to use those archaic h j k l keys instead). I checked the terminal entries in /etc/termcap on both machines, and vt100/vt102 entries on both machines have some differences. The discrepancy seems to be the culprit. The quick solution that i found is to set terminal type to 'at386' or 'at386-m' at login to sunos (on FreeBSD side, either cons25 or vt100). Now everything on the Sun looks OK. ==================== MyongIn Kye I Love my FreeBSD box. Univ. of North Texas FreeBSD getting better and better and better ...... mikye@jove.acs.unt.edu