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- From: jain@spectra.com (Sadhana Jain)
- Subject: Re: more dumb questions from a dumb beginner
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.205125.20481@spectra.com>
- Organization: Spectragraphics Corporation
- References: <1993Jan5.173856.17260@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 20:51:25 GMT
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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.
-
- Did you check the terminal type on machine B? it should be set to
- vt100 or xterms. do the following on machine B:
- setenv TERM vt100
- tset
-
- Hopefully this will solve the problem.
-
- > 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.
- >
- >
- > Jerry Freedman,Jr
-
- Sadhana Jain
-