yea its the latter.

> do you mean your terminal emulation or the actual ttyxxx that it creates. If you mean terminal type you can insert thr folloing command
> into you .bash_profile in the user login dir
> TERM=vt100 or wyse50/60 or ansi etc..
> if you mean the latter than I would like to know as well.
> 
> Bill Warner wrote:
> 
> > What controls the tty for a remote login before you
> > actually login?  On redhat we cant seem to change
> > the default to anything else, and a windows telnet
> > client that we use for our server application is
> > not getting backspace right.
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