terminal emulation

[salem_3]

Hello

I am using red hat entreprise 4 and i want get connexion to an unix system ,so i don't know what terminal emulation to use .

Thanks.

[Ivan Ferreira]

The terminal emulation depends of the remote system Unix type. To connect, you can use telnet or ssh, but the TERM variable depends of the remote system.

[salem_3]

Hi

The remote system is an Alphaserver runing under Tru64 unix ver 5.1B .

[Bill Thorsteinson]

Likely terminal emuliation is xterm or
one of the vt family. Try vt220 or vt100.

Default settings should work.

[Rick Garland]

No problems with xterm. vt100 shopuld work as well but preference for xterm

Here is my command;
xterm -bg purple -fg white -sb -sl 1000 -font 8x16 -name -title -e ssh &

Yes, I like some color and scroll bars. Careful with the colors when working back to a Linux system. The color-ls could throw you for a loop