[tlug] Linux telnet client issue

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

The New York Public library has telnet access to its catalog.

It's nyplgate.nypl.org.

For years I've been using the FreeBSD telnet client.  Lately, due to the
job change, I've been using Linux more often.  Tonight, I went to telnet
to it with the Linux telnet client.  It logs in without a problem
(username leo, no password) but then I can't navigate the menu.  When
you log in you see that it has the typical ctl ] as escape character.
That works, I can get to a > command prompt.

It also works with the Windows telnet client (Win2k).  It doesn't work
with Solaris.  Those were the only the others that I tried tonight. 

I took a look at the respective termcaps, but they're a bit beyond my
knowledge.  I tried doing export TERM=vt100 and then logging in, but had
the same result.  By this time, I was a bit aggravated, and though I did
environ list in Linux and BSD, nothing jumped out as being really
different.  I thought it might be the shell, as I use zsh on BSD and
bash in Linux, but the environ command seems to just give my local
environment--though I'm still not sure that's not a factor. 

Are there any obvious things I'm missing?  If it's almost sure to be in
termcap, then I'll probably concede defeat.  Although maybe not--I'm
sleepy and grouchy tonight, so my mood might change tomorrow.  

I'd be grateful for any clues.  I'm hoping it'll be one of those things
where as soon as I hit send, I'll google once more and find the answer,
but I haven't gotten the right search terms for this one yet.  :-(


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