Using telnet on local network

[Patrick Asselman]

On 2012-10-12 02:19, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I have an old, old computer that has the ability to converse, more or 
> less,
> with the telnet program supplied by out 10-04.4 repo's.
>
> However that machine has huge diffs in the kayboard mapping when 
> compared
> to a modern 100+ key pc keyboard.
>
> Is there a place where a translation table that would make a modern 
> pc
> keyboard be more compatible with this old machines expectations?
>
> For instance, the pc keyboard backspace key is gibberish to the old
> machine, while a ctrl+h works as expected.  That is the sort of
> translations I'd like to have done automatically if possible.
>
> Is it?  And if so, how?
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene
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Hmmm I vaguely recall having those sorts of problems 10+ years ago, 
lol.

Something like

TERM=vt100
export TERM
stty erase ^H

usually did the trick for me...


Best regards,
Patrick Asselman