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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!insync!news.hal-pc.org!usenet From: jhupp@black.gensys.com (Jeff Hupp) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Setting terminal type , Livingston Portmaster Date: 1 Apr 1996 02:02:46 GMT Organization: Houston Area League of PC Users Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4jndg7$jd1@news.hal-pc.org> References: <960331.165921.2841@banshee.uunet.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: black.gensys.com X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 In-Reply-To: <960331.165921.2841@banshee.uunet.ca> To: kschafer@cyberbeach.net (Kurt Schafer) In article <960331.165921.2841@banshee.uunet.ca>, kschafer@cyberbeach.net (Kurt Schafer) writes: > >I have users to my system who are trying to access one of my FreeBSD >boxes from a Livingston Portmaster PM2E-30. > >They can RLOGIN to the box OK, but when they try to use such things as >Pine, TIN, etc they are getting a message saying that the programs >cannot operate in 'Dumb Terminal' mode. > >How do I go about setting a terminal type of VT100 or ANSI for the >shells ? (primarily CSH and TCSH) > At the portmaster prompt, and to set them for all ports on the portmaster, enter `set all termtype vt100` You will then have to 'save all' -- FreeBSD, turning PCs into workstations. Jeff Hupp <Jhupp@gensys.com> <http://gensys.com> PGP Public Key available at http://gensys.com or on the key servers