Full screen applications on remote machines misbehave!

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4.16. Full screen applications on remote machines misbehave!

The remote machine may be setting your terminal type to something other than the cons25 terminal type used by the FreeBSD console.

There are a number of work-arounds for this problem:

After logging on to the remote machine, set your TERM shell variable to either ansi or sco.
Use a VT100 emulator like screen locally. screen offers you the ability to run multiple concurrent sessions from one terminal, and is a neat program in its own right.
Install the cons25 terminal database entry on the remote machine.
Fire up X and login to the remote machine from an xterm.