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From: vlruo02@dutrun.UUCP (Ge van Geldorp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: rlogin gets confused.
Summary: PTF 1751 fixes it
Keywords: AIX 2.2.1, vi, rlogin
Message-ID: <910@dutrun.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 89 19:36:23 GMT
References: <3160@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Reply-To: ge@dutlru2.tudelft.nl (G.v.Geldorp)
Organization: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Lines: 29

In article <3160@nmtsun.nmt.edu> peter@hydrovax.nmt.edu (Peter A. Blemel)
writes:
>1. rlogin -- Coming from a VAX running BSD4.3, the terminal information
>seems to get hosed. All my pts's are defined as VT100, the BSD csh has
>the TERM=vt100, and the appropriate termcap=. When I rlogin to the RT and
>try to use vi, I get 'Don't know enough about your terminal'. I have tried
>setenv TERM, and I know I configured the pts terminal type right. Telnet
>into the machine set's everything up correctly, why doesn't rlogin?

This problem has been reported here (and to IBM) before. It seems that
IBM finally fixed it, although I wouldn't want to employ the guy who
wrote the fix. The fix is part of PTF 1751. There are only some small
problems with it... PTF 1751 is known to screw up your system if you
run Distributed Services. Also the fix is not complete.
Since we are not running DS, I thought I would take my chances and apply
the update. The good news is that rlogin/vi now works. The bad news is
that rsh (without command following) still doesn't work, i.e. I still
get the message 'Don't know enough about your terminal to use visual'
after logging in using rsh. So you can forget the standard trick of
linking your hostname to rsh.
Also, after using rlogin, termdef -c and termdef -l usually return 0
until I use vi for the first time. After that, termdef -c and termdef -l
work ok. Still, I think I can live with this situation (at least for
some time).
Now, all I have to do is to relink all my curses-based applications...


Ge van Geldorp.
(ge@dutlru2.tudelft.nl or ...!uunet!hp4nl!dutlru2!ge)