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You can manually set your terminal lines (vertical) and columns (horizontal) on the command line; the fact that the ssh client is not setting this properly suggests that the authors don't know much about specifying TERM types and/or the terminfo db. Most (not all) modern terminal emulation software (e.g. ssh, xterm, terminal.app, rxvt, etc.) dtrt with the OS/shell, which automagically sets it, so generally folks are not even aware that it's necessary until they come upon some software that doesn't dtrt.

Try: stty -a | echo $LINES $COLUMNS in the ssh clients you have to scroll L/R and/or U/D to see everything. You can set LINES and COLUMNS manually (use an alias to save typing). For certain classes of connections it is possible to do this programmatically in your dot files, but you'll have to explore the TERM, ssh environment variables, and other env variables to be able to do this reliably for all your incoming connections.

For the person mentioning web it: multiple sessions of screen on the back-end with one app per session--links or lynx in one screen session, irc client in another, curses based IM in another, etc. Now you have all the speed of your regular connection, and are only sending the immediate updates to the iPhone. If you are a graphics addict, not quite as pretty, but if your real need is ubiquitous computing in the smallest possible package, this would do the trick for a *NIX geek. This is also a low-rent (assuming you have some place to ssh into) work around for the "no multi-tasking" on the iPhone.

FYI, cutting and pasting from the web page to your own config files will give you "smart quotes" instead of the literal quote created from shift+comma. This will prevent bind from starting--just something to be aware of. :)

Thanks again for the succinct how-to's.

Just wanted to thank you for your initial posting about compiling ssh support into netatalk on *buntu (I use xubuntu myself, as I dislike gnome). I found other guides, but the build options in them did not work properly. While I have a lot of experience compiling software by hand (coming from a Solaris background where there are no real complete package systems), I don't quite understand the subtle differences in build techniques using apt and dpkg.

A shell short cut--chown & chgrp can be done at the same time: chown user1:group1 filename

I've been trying to set up TM backups to NFS with zero luck even using the sparsebundle tricks, so have switched to AFP which is why I found your guides to be so helpful.