* [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
@ 2008-05-29 14:48 Glenn Becker
2008-05-29 14:58 ` Christian Kellermann
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From: Glenn Becker @ 2008-05-29 14:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: DIST - Plan 9 From Bell Labs
Hi all -
I have an odd relationship with Plan 9. It sits on one of the primary
partitions of my laptop. Every once in a while I think "Crikey, I'm not
smart enough to do anything with this," and think about replacing it
with, oh, I don't know, another Linux distro ... but then I will dig a
little into the list archives, boot the system up, fiddle, and solve one
or more of my issues. And then the fascination takes hold again ...
Last night was a good problem-solving night. But one of my continuing
frustrations is that, although networking works, I am having issues
'communicating' from the system ... so if I have a problem with something
in Plan 9, I have to reboot into Linux or (bleah) Win XP in order to
communicate it ...
More specifically, I can ssh from Plan 9 into my account at SDF
(sdf.lonestar.org aka freeshell.org). I've played around with ssh options
some and improved what I am seeing in the terminal connected to that
account, but when I fire up Pine to attempt reading my email, I get a
screen that is 1/2 muck/garbage characters.
I poked around in the list archives but didn't find any solution to that.
If anyone has suggestions (or can tell me where/what I need to read) I'd
be grateful. FWIW, the system I am logging into (SDF) runs NetBSD (2.0 or
thereabouts, IIRC).
Thanks,
GB
+-----------------------------------------------------+
Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
+-----------------------------------------------------+
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* Re: [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
2008-05-29 14:48 [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters Glenn Becker
@ 2008-05-29 14:58 ` Christian Kellermann
2008-05-29 15:08 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-29 15:41 ` Axel Belinfante
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Christian Kellermann @ 2008-05-29 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs; +Cc: DIST - Plan 9 From Bell Labs
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* Glenn Becker <burningc@sdf.lonestar.org> [080529 16:50]:
> screen that is 1/2 muck/garbage characters.
do you run it in vt? otherwise you will see ncurses garbage all
over the place.
HTH
Christian
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* Re: [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
2008-05-29 14:48 [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters Glenn Becker
2008-05-29 14:58 ` Christian Kellermann
@ 2008-05-29 15:08 ` Russ Cox
2008-05-29 17:35 ` Glenn Becker
2008-05-29 15:41 ` Axel Belinfante
2 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Russ Cox @ 2008-05-29 15:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> More specifically, I can ssh from Plan 9 into my account at SDF
> (sdf.lonestar.org aka freeshell.org). I've played around with ssh options
> some and improved what I am seeing in the terminal connected to that
> account, but when I fire up Pine to attempt reading my email, I get a
> screen that is 1/2 muck/garbage characters.
It sounds like you need to run vt first,
which gives you a vt100 terminal emulator
that pine will be able to drive.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
2008-05-29 14:48 [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters Glenn Becker
2008-05-29 14:58 ` Christian Kellermann
2008-05-29 15:08 ` Russ Cox
@ 2008-05-29 15:41 ` Axel Belinfante
2 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Axel Belinfante @ 2008-05-29 15:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
an alternative is to run a vnc session
on the remote (non-plan 9) machine and
use vncv to connect to it.
that might be useful if vt would not be able
to support all cursor control that pine needs.
Axel.
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* Re: [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
2008-05-29 15:08 ` Russ Cox
@ 2008-05-29 17:35 ` Glenn Becker
2008-05-29 23:45 ` Glenn Becker
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Becker @ 2008-05-29 17:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> It sounds like you need to run vt first,
> which gives you a vt100 terminal emulator
> that pine will be able to drive.
Thanks all for the replies. I will look forward to trying this out.
+-----------------------------------------------------+
Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
+-----------------------------------------------------+
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* Re: [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
2008-05-29 17:35 ` Glenn Becker
@ 2008-05-29 23:45 ` Glenn Becker
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: Glenn Becker @ 2008-05-29 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
>> It sounds like you need to run vt first,
>> which gives you a vt100 terminal emulator
>> that pine will be able to drive.
>
> Thanks all for the replies. I will look forward to trying this out.
It works great. This is my epochal first email "via" Plan 9. :D
+-----------------------------------------------------+
Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
+-----------------------------------------------------+
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* Re: [9fans] ssh - pine - "garbage" characters
@ 2008-05-29 15:01 erik quanstrom
0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: erik quanstrom @ 2008-05-29 15:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
> More specifically, I can ssh from Plan 9 into my account at SDF
> (sdf.lonestar.org aka freeshell.org). I've played around with ssh options
> some and improved what I am seeing in the terminal connected to that
> account, but when I fire up Pine to attempt reading my email, I get a
> screen that is 1/2 muck/garbage characters.
going on the assumption that the "garbage" characters
are in fact cursor address escapes, you could try using
vt(1) to do a little bit of vt100 emulation.
- erik
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