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2 total messages Started by Jess Anderson Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:44
Telnet and xterm
#1430
Author: Jess Anderson
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:44
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I have a user who telnets to my NeXT using xterm (X11R4) and
has this vexing problem about not getting a CR (just an LF)
when he hits return.  So things march across the screen,
which is mighty inconvenient.  I don't know a thing about X
or xterm, but when I telnet from another NeXT, or from an
Ultrix box, or from CUTCP on a DOS box, I don't see this
problem.  So I don't know how to help this guy.  So please
help me help him, whichever end of the connection the
problem lies on.

-- 
Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of Wisconsin
Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best, UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet: anderson@wiscmacc
Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone 608/262-5888
Re: Telnet and xterm
#1552
Author: Kent Hooker
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:58
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In article <1992Oct11.194419.2552@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@macc.wisc.edu  
(Jess Anderson) writes:
> 
> I have a user who telnets to my NeXT using xterm (X11R4) and
> has this vexing problem about not getting a CR (just an LF)
> when he hits return.  So things march across the screen,
> which is mighty inconvenient.  I don't know a thing about X
> or xterm, but when I telnet from another NeXT, or from an
> Ultrix box, or from CUTCP on a DOS box, I don't see this
> problem.  So I don't know how to help this guy.  So please
> help me help him, whichever end of the connection the
> problem lies on.
> 
> -- 
> Jess Anderson <> Madison Academic Computing Center <> University of  
Wisconsin
> Internet: anderson@macc.wisc.edu <-best,  
UUCP:{}!uwvax!macc.wisc.edu!anderson
> NeXTmail w/attachments: anderson@yak.macc.wisc.edu  Bitnet:  
anderson@wiscmacc
> Room 3130 <> 1210 West Dayton Street / Madison WI 53706 <> Phone  
608/262-5888

Hi, Jess!

I think the problem lies either in the termcap file on your Next,
or in the environment setting that is done in the login that you
have provided him.  I checked the file on my Next (/etc/termcap)
and it does seem to have an xterm definition that provides for
a carriage return (cr=^M) and a line feed (nl=^J).  Also, when
I telnet into my NeXT from an Xwindow, typing terminal type xterm
gets me a window that "more" will run in, but not VI.  I'm cur-
rently checking further on this as time permits - I would agree
that foreign terminals other that remote Nexts don't get a very
clean environment or very robust terminal emulation. I've appended
the chunk of my /etc/termcap file below- you might want to match
it up with yours, in case something happpened?

############################################
#       Digital Equipment Corporation
############################################
# Harry Weeks, January 1986.
#   These entries were taken from the Ultrix T1.2-1 `termcap' on the VAX-
#     station II.  The X window system terminal emulator entry is `xterm'.
#   Added strings for GNU Emacs.
#   Added entries for white-on-black windows.
# Modified by Kevin Layer, March 1988.
#   Use neither application keypad ("\E=") nor cursor ("\E[?1h")
#     modes by default--the current mode is used.
#   Default is 24-line screen (80-column lines).
vt|xterm|vs100|4315x|xterm terminal emulator (X window system), VAXstation  
II:\
        :cr=^M:do=^J:nl=^J:bl=^G:le=^H:ho=\E[H:\
        :co#80:li#24:cl=\E[H\E[2J:bs:am:xn:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=\E[C:up=\E[A: 
\
        :ce=\E[K:cd=\E[J:so=\E[7m:se=\E[m:us=\E[4m:ue=\E[m:\
        :md=\E[1m:mr=\E[7m:me=\E[m:\
        :ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:\
        :k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:ta=^I:pt:sf=\n:sr=\EM:\
        :al=\E[L:dl=\E[M:ic=\E[@:dc=\E[P:\
        :ks=:ke=:sc=\E7\
        :is=\E[r\E<\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?3;4;6l:\
        :rs=\E[r\E<\E[m\E[2J\E[H\E[?7h\E[?3;4;6l:\
        :ti=\E7\E[?47h:te=\E[?47l\E8:\
        :hs:ts=\E[?E\E[?%i%dT:fs=\E[?F:es:ds=\E[?E:\
        :CV=\E[%i%oH:DC=\E[%dP:IC=\E[%d@:\
        :AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:MT:
--
Kent Hooker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"No mask like open truth to cover lies,
 As to go naked is the best disguise."   William Congreve, 1670-1729
Internet:   pkh@ra.adp.wisc.edu
Bitnet:  khooker@wiscmacc.bitnet
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