Re: [MiNT] real VT100 and termcap

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

[implementing real VT100 on MiNT]

> (Btw, telnetting to a Linux box from a MiNT vconsole actually works
> better than from a Linux vterm, because there's no trouble with the
> cursor keys). :)

Telnet and rlogin work, because they support the (deprecated)
/etc/termcap which is easily modified; you can easily paste
the tw52/tw100/stv52 addendum from Petr's term package or if
that isn't allowed, define your own TERMCAP=~/termcap in your
RC files.

However, SSH and most recent stuff requires a localy-compiled
terminfo, which must be added by the admin.  

For instance, my stv52 vcons is easily recognized when telneting 
at work, since I pasted the mint-specific termcap to our global 
file, but ssh doesn't support this.  However, affterwards, I can 
ssh or slogin to anything and retain the settings, because I was
initially recognized by telnetd.

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