Which TERM emaulation for Windows telnet

I am telneting from a windows pc, (xp and 2000) and everything looks ok
when I am just navigating through the file system and running commands,
but when I use the man pages I get characters like the following.

FORK(2) Linux ProgrammerGÇÖs Manual
FORK(2)

NAME
fork GêÆ create a child process

SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>

pid_t fork(void);

DESCRIPTION
fork creates a child process that differs from the parent
process only
in its PID and PPID, and in the fact that resource utilizations
are set
to 0. File locks and pending signals are not inherited.

Under Linux, fork is implemented using copyGÇÉonGÇÉwrite
pages, so the only

my current TERM setting is ansi, although I have tried vt100, vt220 and
Linux as well. I am running redhat 8. kernel 2.4.18-14.
Can anyone suggest the correct terminal setting or is it something else
I need to change?

Thanks
Bill

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> I am telneting from a windows pc, (xp and 2000) and everything looks ok
> when I am just navigating through the file system and running commands,
> but when I use the man pages I get characters like the following.
>
> FORK(2) Linux ProgrammerGÇÖs Manual
> FORK(2)
>
> NAME
> fork GêÆ create a child process
>
> SYNOPSIS
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
>
> pid_t fork(void);
>
> DESCRIPTION
> fork creates a child process that differs from the parent
> process only
> in its PID and PPID, and in the fact that resource utilizations
> are set
> to 0. File locks and pending signals are not inherited.
>
> Under Linux, fork is implemented using copyGÇÉonGÇÉwrite
> pages, so the only
>
> my current TERM setting is ansi, although I have tried vt100, vt220 and
> Linux as well. I am running redhat 8. kernel 2.4.18-14.
> Can anyone suggest the correct terminal setting or is it something else
> I need to change?
>
> Thanks
> Bill
>

I believe it's more to do with character set translation. I use PuTTY
from Win32 to a host. In the Window->Translation option i set "Received
data assumed to be in which character set" to UTF-8.

B.

On 12 Dec 2004, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I am telneting from a windows pc, (xp and 2000) and everything looks ok
> when I am just navigating through the file system and running commands,
> but when I use the man pages I get characters like the following.
>
> FORK(2) Linux ProgrammerGÇÖs Manual
> FORK(2)

Looks like whatever you are using is either not communicating its lines
and columns, or doesn't understand ansi screen codes. I would suggest
using PuTTY to connect using ssh instead of telnet. I don't have any
trouble using it to read man pages in Linux, Solaris or NetBSD.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> my current TERM setting is ansi, although I have tried vt100, vt220 and
> Linux as well. I am running redhat 8. kernel 2.4.18-14.

iirc, Redhat 8 was when they introduced UTF-8 locales. Setting your
environment to a POSIX or ISO-88591-1 (e.g., en_US) would probably fix
that.

Also, M$'s telnet doesn't match any of the flavors you mentioned.
I made a "ms-vt100-color" entry which is workable - probably not in
Redhat 8. See

ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/terminfo.src.gz

--
Thomas E. Dickey
http://invisible-island.net
ftp://invisible-island.net

Thanks, I'll give these suggestions a try and let everyone kow what
happens.