*- Stephen J. Carpenter wrote about "Re: xterm problems"
| On Wed, Aug 12, 1998 at 01:52:22PM +0200, Michael Sicher wrote:
| > hello,
| >
| > i like debian 2.0 very much but now i have problems with xterm:
| >
| > - i am not able to log into some systems using telnet (connection closed
| > by foreign host).
| >
| > - on some systems i cannot start vi when logged in via xterm/telnet (no
| > terminal database found - debian 1.3 system)
| >
| > - backspace does not work
| >
| > how it is possible to solve this problems or to use xterm instead of
| > xterm-debian?
|
| *I dunno how to change it permanatly but...in bash before telnet:
| export TERM="xterm"
|
Read /usr/doc/xbase/README.Debian for info on how to deal with the term
type differences.
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Brian
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