On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 18:54, Matthijs wrote:
> This may not be Debian related - other than that the system I'm
> accessing is installed with Debian Linux - so if anybody has a better
> suggestion for a newsgroup to post this to, let me know...
> 
> I've got a server here running sshd. I can access it from my Windows
> PC using PuTTY - no problem at all with the display.
> 
> At work, I'm working on a HP-UX Unix machine. When I log into my own
> server from there, I've got no problems except that the display is not
> working correctly when I'm using programs like nano, vi or mutt.
> 
> It's difficult to describe exactly. When I start mutt and I've got
> four e-mails to read, only 1 is displayed, the others become visible
> when I scroll the cursor down.
> When I open a textfile with nano, almost nothing is visible, but when
> I scroll the cursor to the right, the characters become visible one by
> one.
> 
> It's totally impossible to work this way and I'm forced to edit
> textfiles using sed...
> 
> The xterms at work are monochrome - but switching the colours of nano
> to monochrome didn't fix it.
> 
> I used to have a ssh login on the server of my previous ISP. When I
> logged in from work on my ISP's server, I had no display problems at
> all, so I suspect that I should be able to solve the problem on my own
> server - I just don't have a clue as to how to solve it.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> -- 
> Matthijs
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 

check the term environment eg:
set |grep -i term
and set term="whateveryouwant"
i do this when I ssh to solaris from my linux box.
this may help, im not sure.
Kenneth


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