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From: Justin England <jengland@laptop.enetis.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Termcap from FreeBSD to SunOS 4.1.4
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 02:06:28 -0700
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I have two FreeBSD 2.1.6 PC and our main UNIX box runs SunOS 4.1.4  I 
can't get the cons25 termcap to work on the Sun machine.  First, when I 
telnet in, I would just use the vt100 term type, but for some reason, 
nothing would  work properly.  Therefore, I copied the termcap 
entries for cons25 and all assosiated entries.  Now when I log in and set 
the term type to cons25, pine tells me "Your terminal, of type "ansis", 
is lacking functions needed to run pine."  If I login with a term type of 
cons25w, pine works fine, but vi tells me "ansiw: unknown terminal type.  
Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capabiity."

I am at a loss.  I know that there has to be people who telnet into Sun 
machines and have no problems.  I'd appreciate any help from somebody who 
has delt with this before.  If this helps, even when I rlogin or telnet 
in from X and use xterm as the term type, it still doesn't work 100%.  
The only way I can get a session to work properly is to rlogin/telnet 
into my Sun machine, then execute "xterm -display freebsdpc:0"

TIA for any help

J England
jengland@enetis.net