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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with Telnet
Date: 17 Apr 1997 12:53:44 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5j4ba0$sjc$2@easystreet03>,
tedm@portsoft.com writes:
> In <01bc4a2b$50901400$b69fbf82@dan.sdsu.edu>, "Joe" <masc0803@rohan.sdsu.edu> writes:
>>I was wondering if someone could help me solve this problem I just recently
>>started having with my FreeBSD box. When I use my win95 box to log into my
>
> Edit your .profile file in your home directory and put the following lines in it:
>
> TERM=vt100
> export TERM
Eek, no. Read my other post in this thread. telnet negotiates the value
of your TERM variable according to what the client wants. The client
should be configured with the correct TERM value, not the server.
The best you should do in a profile is set TERM *only* if it's not
already set.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !