Aha!  Once I add the tset command, I now get the tab stops set automatically.

Thanks!!!

- Mark B.

Danny van Delft wrote:

> 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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