From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 00:35:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA18586 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seabass.progroup.com (catfish.progroup.com [206.24.122.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA18581 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from craig@localhost) by seabass.progroup.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id AAA08117 for questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199608080736.AAA08117@seabass.progroup.com> Subject: Re: troubles with vi in telnet session To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 00:36:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Craig Shaver" In-Reply-To: <199608080706.JAA09399@obelix.cica.es> from "Jesus A. Mora Marin" at Aug 8, 96 09:06:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hi, > > This may sound a very stupid question, but I am really stuck. I have installed > FreeBSD 2.2 SNAP-960323 on a machine at work. To do something profitable I > telnet to another system running Unixware. I run into trouble when try to > edit any file with `vi(1)': it doesn't want to scroll the text and simply > overwrites the new line at bottom. I have tried changing TERM, using new termcap > entries from both the remote system and Linux, and messing with `vi' settings, > but no luck. May I have missed any point? > Any hint would be highly appreciated. TIA. > > > > Jesus A. Mora > amora@obelix.cica.es Have you tried other OS's with different results? I do not know about Unixware, I gave up on it a couple of years ago. I use rlogin and telnet to other machines and set the term to xterm, since I always use X. I can set rows and columns using stty. Try a man stty and see if you can set rows and columns to make it work. Failing that, I would try to install a terminfo on Unixware that matches the term you are using. -- Craig Shaver (craig@progroup.com) (415)390-0654 Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088