The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD

[Ryan Powers]

On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:30:30AM -0400, Brian K. White said:

> There is another screen in putty where the TERM variable is set to "xterm"
> by default.
> This, when you log in, the shell thinks you are using an xterm and so your
> scoansi up-arrow sequence goes unrecognized.
> 
> I think it's under "telnet" in the settings.
> change "xterm" to "cons25"
> 
> then add cons25 to the label line for the ansi|scoansi|cansi entry in fp
> termcap.
> so it'll be like:
> cons25|ansi|scoansi|...|Color SCO Ansi Console:\
> 
> The freebsd console is almost exactly the same as the sco ansi console.

With the FreeBSD native version of filePro things are a bit
different. In order for the graphics and keys to work correctly you
need to have PFTERM set to the new "bsd" termcap entry and this is 
automatically added to config during installation.

-- 
Ryan
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