Changing the terminal type

[Gregory Nowak]

Close. The actual command is:
"set TERM vt100". Hth.
Greg


On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 01:29:27PM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> 
> Dan -
> I think you should just be able to type "TERM=vt100" (the 'TERMN'
> is in caps)
> 
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Dan Murphy wrote:
> 
> > Hi all.
> > Recently, I tried to telnet to another ISP on which I had an account
> > and after I entered my password, and the "last login" line came up, it
> > said "terminal type linux unknown", and dumped me.
> > when I tried it using Hyperterm on my other machine, it worked since
> > Hyperterm was set to Vt100.  How do I tell Linux to tell the telnet
> > program to tell the remote host i'm using vt100, or one of the vt
> > family?
> > thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Dan Murphy
> > mailto:mweeby at nycap.rr.com
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