Telnet again

[Takayuki Tamura]

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:08:51 +1300
Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> > The terminal type is 'cygwin' which is roughly similar to 'linux'.
> 
> The Unix system (it's SunOS 5.6) doesn't understand either of those.
> 
> > You'll probably have the best luck if you use the information from
> > cygwin's /etc/termcap on your UNIX box.
> 
> Use it how? What do I do with it?

setenv TERMCAP '<paste the linux entry from cygwin's termcap>'

or

setenv TERMPATH <alternate-termcap-file>

I'm not sure the latter exists in Solaris (FreeBSD has it, I remember).
Consult man pages (tset, environ, ...) for more details.

Regards,
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Takayuki TAMURA
ttathome@remus.dti.ne.jp

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