On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, David Karlin wrote:
> What type of tty is freezing? (console, telnet, xterm, etc.)
> I had some problems with vi freezing, and otherwise acting
> strangely from a telnet session. Since my telnet client
> emulates a vt100 terminal, the solution was to do:
>
> $ export TERM=vt100
>
> This assumes bash shell (the linux default). Without the
> export command, bash assumes 'TERM=ansi' (on my system,
> anyway). If you want to check what type of terminal bash
> thinks you are on, do:
>
> $env (for 'environment')
I'm getting this problem in a console tty; TERM=linux. (I tried
entering $env, but it didn't return anything..?) I'm going to put
TERM=vt100 in my /etc/bashrc and see what happens.
thanks,
ben taylor
