Dear Managers,
Sorry for the delay in summarizing, but I had to wait for
feedback from my users.
Original question
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I have several colleagues and students who log into my DU v4.0
machines (DEC 3000/300LXs) from remote SUN workstations via telnet.
They report problems with terminal emulation. The SUNs are completely
beyond my control and I do not have a SUN locally available to make
tests, so I can only report my users comments.
Here are two comments from an experienced user logging in from
a remote SUN workstation. The first comment was an attempt to login
with TERM set to sun-cmd, sun, and sun1. Digital Software Support
added a suggestion to try xterm, which occasioned the second comment.
As you can see, all attempts were more or less failures.
Any suggestions?
Message 1:
> > Larry, The change is noticeable, in that it tries to make the
> terminal a sun-cmd terminal rather than the default VT100. However,
> the sun-cmd driver isn't recognized. It can't even display a man
> page, not surprisingly (however, if it were a VT100 designation, the
> sun would be able to display it). When I do a tset or reset and
> export TERM; TERM=sun it tries to be a sun; it works the man pages
> ok, but emacs is fouled up, and unworkable, albeit in a different
> fouled up fashion than when it is in VT100 mode. Either one is
> unusable, this is not just a one line bottom of the screen louse up.
> Setting to sun1 doesn't work either. With sun1, I'm not able to
> even get into emacs, but I am able to display mail. I've also tried
> these terminal types using the csh initializations (viz. setenv
> TERM), but with no luck.
Message 2:
The xterm designation didn't work, but it was worth a try. Sounds
as if DEC support isn't what it used to be! Hopefully, your net
broadcast will turn up better results.
Addendum to message 2:
Larry,
Just some added information..The system here tries to set the
terminal to be a 'sun-cmd' terminal. I then changed it to sun and
sun1, without having a resulting functional success with either.
Response
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I received several responses which were previously posted to
this list. The one that solved the problem was a message from Mike
Iglesias <iglesias_at_draco.acs.uci.edu>, who supplied the output from a
run of the SUN "infocmp" command for sun-cmd (I would be happy to
forward this to any who need it). I saved this as sun-cmd.ti and ran,
at Mike's suggestion, the tic command on DU:
tic sun-cmd.ti
This worked, but oddly enough the users must log in with TERM set to
sun, not sun-cmd! That's good enough for my purposes. Thanks again
to all who replied!
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
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Received on Fri Sep 20 1996 - 19:50:00 NZST