[102434] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RH 5.2 Telnet session
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Dec 3 01:54:38 1998
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 01:52:35 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Clare Teoh wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I've recently upgraded to RH 5.2 and when I telnet to another machine
> (HP-UX) on my network and run an application, I noticed that the lines
> and boxes does not draw correctly ie. instead of getting lines and
> boxes, I now get some other keyboard character
The HP does not have a terminfo or termcap for your Linux screen.
The plain character-based Linux console is called "linux".
You need to add terminfo and termcap entries called
linux
to the HP. Have the HP sysadmin do it if you have no access.
Then, when you telnet from a linux console to the HP, do
TERM=linux export TERM
and everything should display perfectly.
If you can't get linux added to the HP terminfo and termcap,
then try setting TERM to ansi or vt100 instead.
One of those may work alright.
Do "echo $TERM" to see what the HP thinks you are,
with telnet, and then with rlogin.
If you're in a Linux xterm while running X, do
TERM=xterm export TERM
on the HP.
Another way is to use rlogin instead of telnet.
They are similar, except that rlogin automatically
tells the remote what TERM is, while telnet does not.
>
>
> eg.
>
> In RedHat 5.1 telnet session
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> SOME APPLICATION
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> 1. First Module
> 2. Second Module
>
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> In RedHat 5.2 telnet session
>
> qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
>
> SOME APPLICATION
> qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
>
> 1. First Module
> 2. Second Module
>
> qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq
>
> I have no idea where to begin looking to get back the nice look in the
> RH 5.1 telnet session.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Clare
>
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