We are looking for a terminal type that will return just the text, no
controls or special characters. Can anyone help? We have tried dumb, ansi,
tty. tty and dumb returned nothing. ansi returned text but with a lot of
special characters.

Is toe still the command to get a list of the available terminal types?
Anything special to do to get it to work from a basic user login? Or do we
need a different command?

Thanks in advance.

Michele

"Michele Neal" <mneal@branchconnect.com> wrote in message
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> We are looking for a terminal type that will return just the text, no
> controls or special characters. Can anyone help? We have tried dumb, ansi,
> tty. tty and dumb returned nothing. ansi returned text but with a lot of
> special characters.

Your terminal needs to support vt100, if it does,
you can do TERM=vt100; export TERM to set
your terminal to vt100.  But your terminal/software
must support vt100.

"Michele Neal" <mneal@branchconnect.com> writes:
>
>We are looking for a terminal type that will return just the text, no
>controls or special characters. Can anyone help? We have tried dumb, ansi,
>tty. tty and dumb returned nothing. ansi returned text but with a lot of
>special characters.
>

You can try "unknown".  However, you're not being clear about what
applications you're trying to use.  If you use full-screen editors
like vi, you're going to have trouble with a "just text, no controls"
terminal type.

If you explain why you need only text without any cursor control,
then perhaps someone can tell you how they solved the problem.

  -Greg
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