telnet and tset

Will Nelson will at presto.ig.com
Tue Nov 28 09:20:05 AEST 1989


I am having a problem using tset under the Bourne shell
under SUN OS 4.0.3.
When I telnet to another system and login under the Bourne
shell, the following .profile executes, but doesn't prompt
for confirmation that the vt100 description is the one to be used:

echo "The following is a list of commonly used terminals"
echo "Designation       Terminal Type"
echo "adm3a             Lear Siegler (ADM)"
echo "aaa-48            Ann-Arbor Ambassador in 48 line mode"
echo "aaa-60            Ann-Arbor Ambassador in 60 line mode"
echo "dm3025            Datamedia 3025a"
echo "h19               Heath H19 or Zenith"
echo "hp2621            Hewlett Packard HP2621"
echo "hp2648-iv         Hewlett Packard HP2648A"
echo "sun               Sun Microsystems Workstation console"
echo "tvi912            Televideo 912, 920"
echo "tvi950            Televideo 950"
echo "vi200             Visual 200"
echo "vt100             Digital Equipment VT100 (default)"
echo "vt102             Digital Equipment VT102"
echo "vt200             Digital Equipment VT200"
echo "Press Return to select vt100, or enter the appropriate terminal"
eval `/usr/ucb/tset -S -Q -m 'tip-dialup:?vt100' -m 'network:?vt100' -m 'dumb:?vt100' -m 'dialup:?vt100' -m 'fast-dialup:?vt100' -m 'unknown:?vt100' -m 'pdn-dialup:?vt100'`
PATH=:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/etc:/usr/5bin:/usr/hosts:/usr/local/etc:/usr/etc:/usr/sccs:/usr/local/private:/usr/local/sybase/bin:/usr/local/informix/bin:/usr/share/local/ops/bin:/usr/share/local/igswprod/igv53/bin:/local/bin:/usr/etc/install:/usr/etc/install/script:/usr/informix/bin:/usr/local/X11/bin:/usr/local/cap:.:~/bin:~/etc
export PATH

I suspect that there may be another -m category for telnet,
but I have no idea what it might be. The possible values
for the -m argument are poorly documented.

Any ideas?

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