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.


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