From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 8 04:34:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA02023 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 04:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA02014 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 04:34:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id NAA02886; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 13:33:18 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (LAA00818); Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:39:52 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199608081139.LAA00818@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: troubles with vi in telnet session To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 11:39:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: amora@obelix.cica.es 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 PL24] 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 > 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? I don't know Unixware, but with Linux, you have to make TERM=scoterm (if you use the syscons driver) - well, maybe your Linux version has missing this termcap/terminfo description). With the other Unices, search for description of SCO compatible console. And of course, these description have to be on the other machines, not on FB. (If you use the pcvt driver, it's more simple, use any vt220 termcap/terminfo description.) With Linux, I had so many problems with both vt100/vt220/xterm (when I went from console mode, not from X). -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky