Hi,

> I have WinXP telnetting to my VS running NetBSD (and PC running Linux)
> using builtin telnet.exe. Upon telnetting the terminal type is set to
> ansi but obviously WinXP and termcap disagree on their definitions of
> "ansi" as bunch of stuff doesn't work correctly (scrolling up and doiwn
> in joe, some control keys not working properly, etc.). At the time being
> i set
>
> export TERM=vt100
>
> to be able to edit files at the very least but this way i lost some
> functionality in other areas (bash history for example).

Windows telnet is one of the worst programs of its kind anywhere, in my
opinion. I'd recommend you get any of a number of free programs to replace
it (TeraTerm, putty).

John Klos
Sixgirls Computing Labs