home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.protocols.tcp-ip:5928 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:7358
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!copper!csn!boulder.parcplace.com!imp
- From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
- Subject: Re: TELNET terminal types
- Keywords: telnet terminal option rfc1060
- Message-ID: <C0pn8v.Anq@boulder.parcplace.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 22:17:19 GMT
- References: <jcmorris.726603002@mwunix>
- Sender: news@boulder.parcplace.com
- Organization: ParcPlace Boulder
- Lines: 40
-
- In article <jcmorris.726603002@mwunix> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe
- Morris) writes:
- > In particular, in the terminal-type options
- >negotiation (per RFC 1091) the Wollongong product is delivering the text
- >string:
- >
- > DEC-VT100
-
- This is a conforming implementation.
-
- >The trouble is that none of our UNIX boxes (typically running SUN-OS,
- >IBM's AIX (RS-6000), or Silicon Graphics' IRIX) have the faintest
- >idea what to do with this terminal type; their terminfo files expect
- >something like "vt100". One problem is that RFC 1060 does not include
- >any terminal types of the form "VTxxx".
-
- This is not a conforming implementation.
-
- >So...any comments? Is Wollongong alone in adhering to RFC 1060, or do
- >the UNIX vendors say "RFC's aren't legal standards", or have I missed
- >some obvious point here?
-
- I've seen other things that adhere to the RFC 1060 standards wrt
- terminal type. I think that Multinet does as does the TOPS-20
- implementation, but I could be wrong on either of these.
-
- All that the unix telnet client is doing is pushing across the wire
- the setting of TERM. There is no attempt to map terminals into the
- "standard" types and then back again. In fact, I use this trick to
- push across DISPLAY and terminal size information to less than robust
- implementations of telnet (that do do terminal type stuff).
-
- Your best bet would be to create aliases for DEC-VTxxx in the termcap
- and terminfo databases. This is a kludge, at best, but would solve
- the problem of telnetting to the unix box from the PC.
-
- Warner
- --
- Warner Losh imp@boulder.parcplace.COM ParcPlace Boulder
- I've almost finished my brute force solution to subtlety.
-