Terminal emulation when connecting to solaris boxes

[Gregory Nowak]

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Well, believe it or not, the terminal type of your GNU/Linux system is
... drum roll ... LINUX. Interesting, ha?

Anyway, from my experience, Solaris boxes don't seem to know that a
terminal type LINUX exists. So, before I ssh into a solaris box, on my
GNU/Linux system, I always do

export TERM=VT100

, and then I ssh, and things work just fine on the Solaris box. This
may not be the way to do things, or there may be a better way, but
what I described works for me.

Greg


On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:54:27PM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> In my shell source file on work's solaris box, I set the terminal variable 
> to vt100 because that worked relatively well with windows but it still had 
> it's problems.  When I tried to connect to that machine using my new 
> debian box, I was surprised to discover the same problems, it can't 
> backspace in emacs properly in some applications like sftp and doesn't 
> understand all the emacs key bindings.  What terminal type is my linux box 
>  and how can I make Debian and Solaris talk better? 
> Sean
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