Terminal Problems?

[Rob Smith]

Hello All,

I have a new box, actually it's used but freshly installed, anyway, when I log on it says it cannot recognize my terminal type, something like "70098 Not Recognized," So I set the TERM variable from the command line to vt220. When I go into vi or sam the screen fills up with garbage and bombs out my session. I am working from the console when this happens. I know I am missing something simple.

Many TIA's
Robert Smith

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

try :

export TERM=hp
vi the file...

[James R. Ferguson]

Robert:

To find out what the device thinks it is, do:

# ttytype -a

You should be able to set TERM=70098

...JRF...

[Trevor Dyson · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

Looks like your terminal is a hp 700/98. The default mode of these terminals is HP compatible not vt/ansi compatible, thats why you saw the garbage when setting the TERM variable to vt220.

The message "70098 Not Recognized" is caused by there being no entry for this terminal in the /usr/lib/terminfo/7 directory.

I believe the 700/92/94/96/98 terminals are pretty similar so you can probably fix this problem by copying:

/usr/lib/terminfo/7/70092

to

/usr/lib/terminfo/7/70098

Regards, Trevor

[Dan Hetzel]

Hi,

If you're running a posix, bourne or Korn shell, type the following:

export TERM=hp

You could add the preceeding line in your $HOME/.profile file

If you're running a c-shell (csh), type the following:

setenv TERM hp

once again, you could add this line in your $HOME/.login file

Dan