Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:12:23 -0500 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: Tom Kersten <tomkersten98@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi: No Terminal Database???? Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20011123221027.02f4c8b8@mail.enterit.com> In-Reply-To: <20011124023133.82891.qmail@web10002.mail.yahoo.com>
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At 18:31 11.23.2001 -0800, Tom Kersten wrote: >Hello, > >I am trying to use Eterm. When I attempt to use vi it >gives me the following error: >"vi: No terminal databse found" >It appears that there is a problem accessing the >/etc/termcap file becaue when the program starts up it >gives the following error: >"csh: cannot open /etc/termcap. >csh: using dumb terminal settings." Make sure that your TERM is set. Since FreeBSD defaults to cons25 make sure that Eterm and vi are both set to understand what cons25 is (which will probably actually result in your termcap being correct but the elusive termcap file has *always* given me a headache). Try setting your TERM to something generic like vt100 and then see how things react. export TERM=vt100 (in sh and friends) setenv TERM vt100 (in csh and friends) >I think if I fix the file access problem, the other >problem will not occur, but am unsure of how to do it. >Any suggestions??? > >Thanks in advance, > >Thomas Kersten > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. >http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message - Jim -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=67861&lastnode_id=67861 -----BEGIN PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK----- ------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------ Version: 0.01 Version: 3.12 P++>*@$c?P6?R+++>++++@$M GIT/CM/J d++(--) s++:++ a- >++++$O!MA->++++E!> PU-->+++BD C++++(+) UB++++$L++++$S++++$ $C-@D!>++++(-)$S++++@$X?WP+>++++MO!>+++ P++(+)>+++++ L+++(++++)>+++++$ !E* +PP+++>++++n-CO?PO!o >++++G W++(+++) N+ o !K w--- PS---(-)@ PE >*(!)$A-->++++@$Ee---(-)Ev++uL++>*@$uB+ Y+>+++ PGP t+(+++)>+++@ 5- X++ R@ >*@$uS+>*@$uH+uo+w-@$m! tv+ b? DI-(+++) D+++(++) G(++++) ------END PERL GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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