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- From: bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk (Michael!)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: more dumb questions from a dumb beginner
- Message-ID: <7131@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:24:43 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.173856.17260@linus.mitre.org> <BUZZ.93Jan6093356@lion.bear.com>
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- In article <1993Jan5.173856.17260@linus.mitre.org> jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman) writes:
- |> > I am running X11R5 on Sun SPARCS running SunOs4.1.x. I am having a
- |> > great deal of trouble telneting and editing across machines using
- |> > xterm. If I am on machine A, in an xterm and I telnet to machine B and
- |> > attempt to use more, vi, emacs the screen eventually gets screwed up.
- |> > Is this a lost cause? I get the feeling that it is something xterm
- |> > wasn't meant to do. It really doesn't matter what machine I telnet
- |> > into by the way.
- |>
- |> telnetting does not "carry across" the connection the terminal type of
- |> the local tty. After you telnet to machine B, you'll find that the $TERM
- |> environment variable is "dialup," "network," or similar and that
- |> $ stty -a
- |> reports rows = 0 and columns = 0. more, vi, and emacs depend on these
- |> parameters being set properly or else they garble the screen.
- |>
- |> Set "TERM=xterm" and "stty rows xx columns yy" after telnetting to machine B.
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- why not use rlogin instead of telnet?
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