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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Difference between rlogin and telnet
Date: 4 Jun 1997 09:16:03 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <5n1vhs$jbs@news.gvsu.edu>,
behrensm@river.it.gvsu.edu (Matt Behrens) writes:
> Guy Harris (guy@netapp.com) wrote:
>
>: (Now, there *is* the issue of what you send over the wire with the
>: terminal-type option; the RFC says you should use one of the terminal
>: types from the "Assigned Numbers" RFC, but the BSD Telnets have, at
>: least in the past, ignored that and just sent the value of $TERM. I
>: suppose that allows one to handle terminals not in the terminal type
>: list, but it could cause problems if one of the systems involved doesn't
>: happen to use the same terminal-type names that UNIX "termcap" and
>: "terminfo" databases use....)
>
> I know it causes me problems. My school's HP-UX machine doesn't know what
> "cons25" is.
Not surprising. You could always create a terminfo entry and
submit it :) Or if HP-UX uses termcap, just ask your admin to
add it (give him the entry from the FreeBSD termcap database).
Or maybe HP-UX supports the TERMCAP variable.
We've just had a load of Pyramid boxes installed State-side, and
and least one of them doesn't know what xterm is (I assume in the
terminfo db) ! Duh.
> --
> Matt Behrens
> Zigg Computer Services
> zigg@iserv.net
> http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !