I have the following Linux box: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikan ga) x86 I'm trying to connect to it, using a Mainframe integration product which supports only the VT100 protocol. I can connect successfully from TinyTerm using Wyse60 settings but when using VT100 settings the screen comes up messed up. How can I configure my Redhat box to support VT100 ?
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Wyse60 is a completely different command set from the basic VT100-compatible ANSI command set that' used e.g. on the linux console or by xterm etc. so you probably have the correct terminfo files installed and have set the TERM environment variable to the correct value (probably wy60 I guess) when using TinyTerm (which I'm unfamiliar with).
When using the terminal emulator that only supports basic VT100 mode, you will need to set TERM=vt100 in the environment:
$ export TERM=vt100
That will lead to programs wanting to address the screen to use a file /usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100 to determine the capabilities, so check whether that file exists. It should be part of the ncurses package.
If there happens to be a TERMCAP environment setting, then you should unset that.
Things like colorized ls output depends on LS_COLORS in the environment. As vt100 doesn't have colors, unset that as wel..
