RE: [TCLUG:896] telnet question

[Brad DeJong <1796@mn3.lawson.lawson.com>]

You need to set the environment variable "TERM" to the appropriate value.   
 For xterm's, "TERM=xterm", for Windows telnet program "TERM=vt100" (or   
whatever terminal type you have selected in "options"), and so on.

in csh:

> setenv TERM xterm

in ksh:

> export TERM=xterm

in sh:

> set TERM=xterm; export TERM

Sometimes the key mappings get messed up.
If your backspace key doesn't work and you see something like "^H", try

> stty erase '^H'

The stty man page lists other options.
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From:  Chad Juettner
Sent:  Tuesday, August 11, 1998 5:32 PM
To:  tclug-list@listserv.real-time.com; Brad DeJong
Subject:  [TCLUG:896] telnet question

   

is it possible for me to emulate a vt100 terminal? i looked through the
telnet man pages and couldn't find anything, and i looked through the
setterm man page and couldn't understand anything.

i was trying to run pine through a telnet sesion to my isp's box and kept
getting the error saying something like "i don't understand your terminal
type 'linux'".

thanks for your help.


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