The FreeBSD diaries ... installing filePro for FreeBSD

[Brian K. White]

Ryan Powers wrote:
> 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.

If the console is going to set TERM to cons25, why in the world wouldn't you
want an entry in fp termcap to be named cons25? PFTERM is a great feature
that allows various tricks to be pulled off in odd situations, but in 99% of
instances you should never need it.

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