Re: telnet unknown terminal type kvt

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 06:23:36PM -0600, Chester Langin wrote:
> when I telnet to a sun machine (it won't
> take ssh), it says unknown terminal type
> of kvt when I try to use vi.  How do I get
> this to work?

a) See if there is an option in kvt to send something else as the
terminal string.  ("xterm" and "vt100" work nearly everywhere.)

b) Switch to a terminal program that doesn't suck.  (If you are using
KDE, try konsole.  Plain old xterm works pretty well too, once you get
used to it.)

c) "TERM=vt100;export TERM" (sh/ksh/bash) or "setenv TERM vt100"
(csh), and add that to your .profile (sh/ksh/bash) or .login (csh) if
you have to.

Steve
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