[nycbug-talk] telnet/lynx/elinks

[Tim Smith]

It's plain out-of-the box FreeBSD telnet, & Lynx works fine, just not with
telnet.

Tim

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Michael Hernandez wrote:

> 
> On Oct 16, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Tim Smith wrote:
> 
> >
> > Anyone know why when I telnet into a shell, (sdf, suffolknet), the web
> > browsers are garbled, all *'s & displaced text?
> >
> > Tim
> >
> 
> I'd say it depends on the charset of the terminal you're using and  
> the charset of the remote shell?
> 
> Are you using putty? telnet from xterm? gnome-terminal, etc etc?
> 
> For example I ssh to sdf via my OS X Terminal.app (term type rxvt and  
> charset ascii) and use lynx and it works just fine.
> 
> --Mike H
>