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SSH from MacOS X or PPC Debian to SUSE # Odd terminal chars # Eventual scripting

Well. I was recently given access to my work's machine via SSH. I'm pretty sure it's a SUSE machine, uname -a gives
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Linux machinename 2.6.16.60-0.54.5-bigsmp #1 SMP Fri Sep 4 01:28:03 UTC 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I'm not doing anything all that exciting, mostly data entry stuff.

We connect to the machine from inside the office using PowerTerm which I would prefer not to use if I can help it. In PowerTerm we specify the terminal type to be SCO-ANSI but all other settings (port numbers, security type, etc) appear to be ones that I am used to seeing.

When I connect via SSH using iTerm, Apple's Terminal/X11, or Debian's terminal I get odd behavior like the screen not refreshing and keyboard mismatching-- eg if I type "05" the screen will echo " =14;12C=10;12C"

The actual program I am using on the remote machine is written in COBOL. Behavior outside of the program in question appears to be normal, eg I can use standard UNIX commands and keyboard translation is normal. I have access to the usual home documents like .profile and .bashrc

I would eventually like to script some of the more mundane tasks but first is there something I can do to fix the keyboard issues?
 
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SSH-ARGV0(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					      SSH-ARGV0(1)

NAME
ssh-argv0 -- replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling SYNOPSIS
hostname | user@hostname [-l login_name] [command] hostname | user@hostname [-afgknqstvxACNTX1246] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-e escape_char] [-i identity_file] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-o option] [-p port] [-F configfile] [-L port:host:hostport] [-R port:host:hostport] [-D port] [command] DESCRIPTION
ssh-argv0 replaces the old ssh command-name as hostname handling. If you link to this script with a hostname then executing the link is equivalent to having executed ssh with that hostname as an argument. All other arguments are passed to ssh and will be processed normally. OPTIONS
See ssh(1). FILES
See ssh(1). AUTHORS
OpenSSH is a derivative of the original and free ssh 1.2.12 release by Tatu Ylonen. Aaron Campbell, Bob Beck, Markus Friedl, Niels Provos, Theo de Raadt and Dug Song removed many bugs, re-added newer features and created OpenSSH. Markus Friedl contributed the support for SSH protocol versions 1.5 and 2.0. Jonathan Amery wrote this ssh-argv0 script and the associated documentation. SEE ALSO
ssh(1) Debian Project September 7, 2001 Debian Project