On 2002-12-09 18:09, Dick Hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A weird problem. I use 4.7FBSD and the standard teminal. I open a > ssh connection to a linux server, log into my account and run slrn > there to read some news.. Very often the screen gets messed up by > scrolling down or 'go past the end'. Parts of the old screen > information is stuck on screen. I have to close slrn ;-(( Same thing > happens in MC (midnight commander).
This is a result of using cons25 as the terminal type, on machines that don't have a proper termcap/terminfo entry for FreeBSD consoles (all linux machines, for instance). I work around this by running screen locally (you can find it in the ports), and then setting TERM in my environment to vt220. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
