[SunRescue] Dumb Terminals under Solaris

Paul Khoury pkhoury3 at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 10 14:11:34 CST 2000


On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 00:34:14 -0800 (PST), James Lockwood wrote:

>On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Paul Khoury wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to add Wyse 60 support to the default /etc/termcap file
>> in Solaris?
>
>You will normally want to use terminfo on Solaris, not termcap.  It
>should already be present:
>
>gengar:/usr/share/lib/terminfo/w% ls wyse60*
>wyse60       wyse60-25-w  wyse60-42-w  wyse60-43-w  wyse60-w
>wyse60-25    wyse60-42    wyse60-43    wyse60-vb    wyse60-wvb
>

How would I setup Solaris to use this directory instead?
I used to have a Wyse 60, and ended up hating it because I couldn't get it to
work properly.

>> Also, does anyone have any good recommendations for a DOS-based term emulator?
>> I'd prefer VT220 minumum, and it needs to be small enough to fit on a floppy.
>
>DOS Kermit.  It's one of the best VT220 emulators period, plus the
>scripting abilities are second to none.  About the only terminal emulator
>I've preferred to it was ProTerm on my Apple IIgs.

Is DOS Kermit something I can get on Simtel?

Paul








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