Re: [MiNT] Telnet?

[Jim DeClercq <jimd@panix.com>]

Thank you. My programming experience has been machine control,
NC, CNC, enbedded systems, payroll and inventory, and telnet has
been something I used, and did not have to think about it.

So it is true that I did not know much about telnet, since I
could not explain it to anyone else, but then nobody has
explained it to me. But now I know that telnet is not the
problem, and that window managers and stubbornness are.

Thanks for the information.

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On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Mario Becroft wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Jim DeClercq wrote:
>
> > That is nice, but my want is to use a telnettable host's version
> > of Pine to read my rather extensive mail.
> >
> > I have had my TERM variable set to vt100, and nothing changed. It
> > came unset, and will not re-set, but that is not the problem. I
> > have a version of Pine sending me vt100 commands, and I have, as
> > far as I know, a telnet that only understands vt52 commands. That
> > is, the one in the SpareMiNT distribution.
> >
> > I asked a simple, I hoped, question. Where is the source code for
> > the latest version of BSD telnet? Or, what other source code, and
> > there should be one or more, can I recompile directly, or almost
> > directly, using MiNT libraries?
>
> I haven't been following this discussion, but I think you may be suffering
> from a misconception about the nature of the problem.
>
> The telnet program knows nothing about terminal types. It just passes
> characters between your local host and the remote host you are talking to.
> You don't need a better telnet client to get vt100.
>
> What you *do* need is to run telnet on a VT100 (compatible) terminal.
> Toswin is nearly VT100 compatible so you can use that. Last time I
> checked, the MiNT console and virtual consoles only did VT52, so those
> won't be suitable. But I used to use a program called screen which, among
> other things, could give you VT100 on a VT52 terminal.
>
> You could also configure the remote host for a VT52 instead of VT100, by
> doing something like
>
> export TERM=vt52
>
> In the general case, your terminal simply needs to be compatible with the
> terminal type the system you are using is configured for. Whether you are
> using telnet or not does not come into it at all.
>
> --
> Mario Becroft <mb@gem.win.co.nz>
> http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/
>
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