On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:00:25PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:54:11PM -0400, Jeff Quast wrote:
> > On 9/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box.  On
> > > OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM
> > > is set to vt220.
> > >
>  
> > Anyway, wsvt25 from console works great from openbsd on openbsd. If
> > you're on net and freebsd, pcvt25 works fairly well. Logging into
> > linux, I generaly use vt220 or vt102.
> 
> Yahoo! wsvt25 works just fine obsd to debian, for mutt.  Interestingly,
> it doesn't work so well natively on obsd.  Also, I don't need to set it
> before sshing; standard vt220 on obsd and ssh to debian and set
> TERM=wsvt25 seems to work just fine.

Just to follow-up.  TERM=screen works well for both OBSD and linux so
that's now my default screen type in /etc/ttys.

Problem solved.  Thanks.

Doug.