It sounds like your terminal settings. If you are accessing via telnet then you are probably using some sort of terminal emulator, depending on whose telnet package you are using. On UNIX you should set the TERM environment variable to the same terminal type that your remote package is emulating, and make sure that you export it. For example a basic emulation done by some primitive packages use the old DEC terminal vt52 as their emulation target, so on UNIX you would set:
export TERM=vt52

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If using C shell (csh or tcsh) you will need:
setenv TERM vt52

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If you set TERM in one of your start-up files (.profile, .kshrc, .bash_profile, .login depending on which shell version and whether the session is a login shell or not) then you have to beware that you might require a different type when not using telnet (xterm, for example).

Display issues are often a mis-match of TERM and the emulator, or sometimes a really bad emulation. The fact that you do not have a problem when not using telnet only means that in that case your TERM setting is correct.

In reply to Re: app via inetd and telnet, terminal handling weirdness by cdarke
in thread app via inetd and telnet, terminal handling weirdness by kc2rgw

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