Re: MS telnet w/ alternate terminal type?

On Dec 26, 9:27 am, "Charles Lavin" <x...@xxx> wrote:
Hi --

I posted this to a managed Microsoft ng, but I'm getting nowhere.

Has anyone had any success using the MS telnet client as shipped in Windows
XP to connect to an AIX box as anything other than a vt100 terminal?

According to telnet's own help, as well as several pages of docs I've found
on the MS site, the MS telnet program supports four emulations: VT100, VT52,
ANSI and VTNT.

The command "telnet -t ansi hostname" supposedly connects to the host using
the ANSI emulation (which is what I need).

An alternate way to do this is with the telnet command "set term ansi".

However, four different AIX hosts (one AIX 3.2.5, one AIX 4.1, two AIX 5.2)
set their TERM values to vt100 when I log in from the MS telnet client, no
matter which terminal emulation I select on the telnet command line.

Other programs, such as TinyTERM and puTTY, don't have this problem setting
up telnet sessions with these hosts.

Does anyone know how to get the MS telnet program to properly identify
itself so that AIX sets it up as an ansi device?

Thanks,
CL


Is the package bos.terminfo.ansi.data installed on the system ?
Does the file /usr/lib/terminfo/ansi.ti exist ?

hth
Hajo

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