Re: help with seting up a dumb terminal to Linux please

["L. C. Robinson" <lcr@draken.localnet>]

On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Jude Dashiell wrote:

> First, there is one and only one dumb terminal situation.
> Terminals can be defined as dumb and all the remote will send them is text
> spaces, and carriage returns.
> Telix usually doesn't run under a dumb  terminal situation in any event.
> I'm a registered user of the program and gave up on it several years ago
> for
> good cause.

So, if I understand you right, some fairly dumb terminal emulation program
is better than Telix, in this situation, and you use such a program?  If,
so, some readers here might like to know what works well for you.  Perhaps
you could post the specifics?

> The vt emulations and ansi and avatar emulations are not dumb terminal
> emulations.  That's because escape codes are passed over the cable for
> such things
> as cursor control; key redefinition, and in some cases text insertion but
> it takes
> an emulation better than ansi under dos 6.22 to do that effectively.

The standard "ansi" terminal description you usually get, when you say:
export TERM=ansi
is a fairly pessimistic, dumb one.   There some much better ones that
have been built up for specific ansi emulation, that you can find out
about by looking through /etc/termcap, and searching for the string
"ansi".

Lynn C. Robinson
reply to infynity@cyberhighway.net (a family account)

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