In article <[log in to unmask]>, "Mark Bixby" <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Hi HP3000-L,
>
> This is Day One of full-time use of my new Windows XP machine using
> QCTerm as my terminal emulator.  Most of my limited QCTerm use so far
> has been with Linux and vi.
>
> Many Linux programs assume that your terminal has tab stops set every 8
> characters, so I had to configure QCTerm to define the expected tab
> stops.
>
> One issue already on Wirt's to-do list is that the Linux telnet server
> reads the terminal type as "network" instead of the value "hp" that I've
> configured into QCTerm.  As a workaround, I've modified my .bash_profile
> to manually export TERM=hp.
>

After which you might want to issue a "tset" command to initialize your
terminal. Usually this is done in your startup script (/etc/profile, ~/.profile,
~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, whatever), but if TERM gets changed after that ...

<rest of post regarding vi in qcterm misbehaviour snipped>

HTH

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