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Term

by Anu Rao

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|     INSTRUCTIONS FOR term-2.3.5     |
| no guarantees, but it works for me. |
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• Preliminaries

  1. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS/HOWTO'S, etc. They contain useful information.
  2. You need to have term at each end (on your local Linux machine, and on your remote network account).
     • Local End: Often term is installed with your Linux distribution. If not, you will have to download and install it on your machine at home yourself.
     • Remote End: You will need to download and install yourself term in your own account.
     
     Click here to download the gzipped tar file term-2.3.5.tar.gz (252081 bytes).
     
     After gunzipping and untarring the file, be sure sure to read the documentation before attempting installation. Note that the term-2.3.5 installation will, by default, create a directory in your home directory called "term", and place some essential libraries (needed at runtime) in it. Moving or removing the libraries from this directory may disrupt your ability to run term.
     
     
  3. Some versions seem to work better than others. Versions that people seem to have (consistent) success with: term 1.11 and term-2.3.5.
     
     
  4. You may want to run the linecheck program to make sure your set-up is ok.

• Running term via Kermit

  1. Logon to remote machine (say obsidian) with kermit
  2. Once on obsidian, type

     term -r

  3. Then ctrl-\ c back to the kermit prompt
  4. Now at the kermit prompt type crtl-z to get back to the Linux prompt
  5. At the Linux prompt type

     term -v/dev/modem &

  6. The Linux prompt will return. Then type

     trsh

  7. an obsidian prompt should appear. this is your term shell.

• Running term via Minicom

  1. Logon to remote machine (say obsidian) with minicom
  2. Once on obsidian, type

     term -r

  3. Then hit "ctrl-a j" to suspend minicom and return to the Linux prompt
  4. At the Linux prompt type

     term -v/dev/modem &

  5. The Linux prompt will return. Then type

     trsh

  6. an obsidian prompt should appear. this is your term shell.

• Running term via Seyon

  1. Logon to remote machine (say obsidian) via seyon
  2. Once on obsidian, type

     term -r

  3. Then in an xterm on your local Linux machine, type

     term -v/dev/modem &

  4. In your seyon command window there is a button called "Shell". Hit this button, which pops up another menu in which you can enter a command. Enter

     trsh

  5. now in your seyon window you should have a term shell.

• Setting the Display

  Hopefully you now have a shell via term. In order to pop up windows on your local machine you need to set the display. To find out which terminal number to send your local display to, from your term shell type

  txconn

  This will return something like
  

  obsidian:n
   or
  :n
  
  

  where "n" is an integer. again from your term shell, type

  setenv DISPLAY obsidian:n
  (if you are using csh)
  
  
  typeset -x DISPLAY=obsidian:n
  (if you are using ksh)
  

  You should now be able to pop up X application windows, etc on your Linux machine at home.