[8929] in Athena Bugs
rsaix 7.3S: telnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Tue Feb 4 00:08:16 1992
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 92 00:08:08 EST
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
System name: m11-113-5
Type and version: POWER 7.3S
Display type: colorgda
What were you trying to do?
telnet with term set to my display. I have dotfile hacks to
make this work.
What's wrong:
telnet will refuse to work if $TERM is invalid:
<18> m11-113-5:~> echo $term
xterm
<19> m11-113-5:~> telnet podge
Trying...
Connected to podge.MIT.EDU.
Escape character is '^T'.
ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 96) (podge)
login: Connection closed.
<20> m11-113-5:~> set term=nosuchterm
tcsh: No entry for terminal type "nosuchterm"
tcsh: using dumb terminal settings.
<21> m11-113-5:~> telnet podge
No terminfo entry for "nosuchterm".
Exit 1
What should have happened:
It should have telnetted. A warning would be fine. The
current behavior is broken.
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