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Terminal Types and Characteristics
The NERSC machines support a wide variety of terminal types, such as VT100 and xterm emulation.
When you connect via ssh the NERSC computer will try to communicate with your computer's software to determine the proper terminal type. If this is successful it will be transparent and you should not have problems reading and editing text in your window.
If your software does not communicate with the NERSC computer, check your local documentation for the terminal type. You can specify the terminal type on the NERSC computer by setting the TERM environment variable, as follows:
| For a VT-100 emulation, type | For an X-Windows "xterm" software terminal, type |
|---|---|
|
setenv TERM vt100 (csh)
or export TERM=vt100 (ksh) |
setenv TERM xterm (csh)
or export TERM=xterm (ksh) |
| To see what value is set, type echo $TERM. | |
