topic Terminal Problem again... in Operating System - HP-UX

Terminal Problem again...

yyghp — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:18:55 GMT

Here's the problem and solution I met before:
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=288029

Now I found that the solution above didn't apply to DOS Prompt.
Although I add the following to the profile:
export TERM=vt100
export TERMCAP=/usr/share/lib/termcap
It's working within Putty or Reflection, but not DOS PROMPT.
Our developers want to use regular telnet from Dos Prompt ( run "cmd" ), then login to Unix to edit their files with Pico, but have the same error:

$ /usr/local/bin/pico
Unknown terminal type vt100!

So, what can I do ?
Thanks !

Re: Terminal Problem again...

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:30:33 GMT

You may have to first set the term type within Windows telnet.

From the command prompt, type 'telnet' and hit return. DO NOT put in a host name yet.

At the "Microsoft Telnet>" prompt type:

set term vt100

Now at the "Microsoft Telnet>" prompt type:

o hostname_you_want_to_connect_to

And see what happens.

The default preferred term type for Miscrosoft telnet is ANSI. You HP-UX machine may not know about that. With the command above you are changing that to vt100.

I would be preferable to use a real telnet client rather than the Microsoft stuff.

Re: Terminal Problem again...

yyghp — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:49:56 GMT

Thanks, but it didn't work:

Microsoft Telnet> set term vt100
Microsoft Telnet> o srs075
...

HP-UX srs075 B.11.11 U 9000/800 (tf)

login: root
Password:
Last successful login for root: Thu May 12 11:42:09 EST5EDT 2005 on pts/tf
Last unsuccessful login for root: Thu May 12 10:55:02 EST5EDT 2005
Please wait...checking for disk quotas
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Value of TERM has been set to "vt100".
WARNING: YOU ARE SUPERUSER !!

# export TERM=vt100
# export TERMCAP=/usr/share/l/b/termcap
# /usr/local/bin/pico
Unknown terminal type vt100!

Thanks!

Re: Terminal Problem again...

Dani Seely — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:55:53 GMT

Have you tried setting your TERM to hpterm rather than vt100?

Re: Terminal Problem again...

Stephen Keane — Thu, 12 May 2005 10:57:45 GMT

It looks like pico doesn't understand the terminal type. Try TERM=hp and see if pico likes that any better.

Re: Terminal Problem again...

Stephen Keane — Thu, 12 May 2005 11:01:53 GMT

Or you could install nano instead, its a GNU enhanced version of pico.

Re: Terminal Problem again...

yyghp — Thu, 12 May 2005 11:49:29 GMT

I tried hpterm but it didn't work either.
I would like to setup PICO because I want to know what's wrong here.
I can use Putty without any problem but why can't use DOS Prompt or Reflection ?
Thanks!