Re: more dumb questions from a dumb beginner

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From: Sadhana Jain
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:51

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In article <1993Jan5.173856.17260@linus.mitre.org> jfjr@mbunix.mitre.org (Freedman) writes:
>  I am running X11R5 on Sun SPARCS running SunOs4.1.x. I am having a
>great deal of trouble telneting and editing across machines using
>xterm. If I am on machine A, in an xterm and I telnet to machine B and
>attempt to use more, vi, emacs the screen eventually gets screwed up.

Did you check the terminal type on machine B? it should be set to
vt100 or xterms. do the following on machine B:
setenv TERM vt100
tset

Hopefully this will solve the problem. 

> Is this a lost cause? I get the feeling that it is something xterm
>wasn't meant to do. It really doesn't matter what machine I telnet
>into by the way.
>
>
>                                   Jerry Freedman,Jr

Sadhana Jain

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