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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!nobody Message-ID: <960331.165921.2841@banshee.uunet.ca> Sender: nobody@banshee.uunet.ca X-Nntp-Posting-Host: www.cyberbeach.net From: kschafer@cyberbeach.net (Kurt Schafer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Setting terminal type , Livingston Portmaster Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 22:00:04 GMT Organization: Cyber Beach Communications X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Lines: 13 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) Thanks.