[GRLUG] Unix Term Emulator Connection

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 15:04 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Adam M. Erickson <adam at openfad.com> wrote:
> > Telnet will connect, but the program  running on the Unix requires F4
> > to escape and F7, to undo but they do not get sent to the server
> > correctly. The backspace does not work also.
> Does anyone know if your typical Linux telnet attempt to reconcile the
> remote terminal type with the local termcaps? 

No.

> I know it preserves
> terminal size (row and column count) on properly-configured hosts.
> Greg Folkert would probably be the one to know. (I know he uses ssh,
> but that's not the point...the point is that he's been working with
> Linux long enough to predate OpenSSH's popularity.)

Me too.  I remember many hours using tic & toe.

Now we've just replaced terminal-emulation-hell with
browser-incompatibility-hell.  But, happily, that falls in the lap of
web developers and not sys-admins.  Suckers!