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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!leon.replicant.apana.org.au!usenet From: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au (Ted Palmer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Terminal Types?? Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:22:47 GMT Organization: RC17 Proving Labs Lines: 46 Message-ID: <57c3cp$9s9@leon.replicant.apana.org.au> References: <848259518.27827@dejanews.com> Reply-To: tedp@replicant.apana.org.au NNTP-Posting-Host: deckard.replicant.apana.org.au X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 exuviae@intersurf.com wrote: [...] >of that nature. is there anyway i can set it to VT100 or >something that would allow full screen editing??? I copped this once from an ISP, until I figured it out. First, see what terminal your shell _thinks_ you are using by: # set | more and see what the TERM setting is. It may not even be set to anything. Secondly, what are you dialling in with? Assuming your terminal or emulator can do a fair impersonation of a VT100, you could read the termcap your ISP is using to get the list of available terminal types eg # more /etc/termcap (assuming the termcap is that location, of course...) This could be useful to see exactly what the VT100 entry is precisely called. If you are using Bourne shell or some clone (likely), you could try: # TERM=vt100 <return> # export TERM <return> Upper/lower case is important, which is why I mentioned the view of the termcap entry. You may need a TERM=VT100, or TERM=vt-100 or something a little different like that. Any decent termcap entry will have these variations, but you can't count on it. To test it, try to vi the previous TERM=(whatever);export TERM commands into the .profile which you should have in your home dir. If you can't get some type of VT100 to work, try VT102. Mister_T -- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\ | RC17 KLR600 Coherent 4.2.10 OS/2 2.11 Roces BCN | | FreeBSD 2.1.5R tedp@replicant.apana.org.au | \|_________________________________________________________________|