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- From: DAVISM@kcgl1.eng.ohio-state.edu (Michael T. Davis)
- Subject: Re: Terminal identification to remote host
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.114359.17245@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- References: <15927@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:43:59 GMT
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- In article <15927@umd5.umd.edu>, dmatthews@uap.umd.edu writes:
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- >When TELNETing to certain unix systems, our system tells theirs that our
- >terminal is a "dec-vt200"; this string is not recognized by the remote host,
- >with varying consequences. The remote systems would have been happy with
- >"vt200". I'm running UCX 2.0 on VMS 5.4-3. The response is generated by UCX,
- >depending on SET TERMINAL/DEVICE=. If I change DEVICE to VT100, for example,
- >it says it's a "dec-vt100". In UCX 1.3 this problem did not arise. I find
- >nothing in the manuals, at least in the indexes. Anyone else had this
- >experience? Any suggestions? Respond by email; I'll post a summary if it
- >seems to be of any interest.
-
- I just made a modification to my U*IX login scripts to strip off the
- "dec-" from $term and/or $TERM before invoking tset. In csh, the variable
- editing looks something like this:
-
- if ( $?term ) then
- set dec_term = `echo "$term" | tr "-" " "`
- if ( "$dec_term[1]" == "dec" ) then
- set term = "$dec_term[2]"
- endif
- unset dec_term
- endif
-
- Mike
-
- >Dr. David L. Matthews, IPST, Univ. of Maryland, College Park MD 20742-2431
- >Telephone (301)405-4830 Internet dmatthews@uap.umd.edu
- >FAX (301)314-9363 NSI/SPAN UMDUAP::DMATTHEWS
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