Date: 12 Nov 1998 03:29:11 +0100 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) Message-ID: <xzp7lx1ve2w.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Brian Feldman's message of "Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:23:19 -0500 (EST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112119330.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> writes:
> Ex is part of nvi/nex, and is in /usr/bin. Do you mean ed? BTW, as I bring
> this up, I'd like to propose moving nvi/nex to /bin. And of course, why
> don't we add setenv("TERM", "cons25") before the sh spawn in /sbin/init?
> It would prevent the following error in a single-user boot:
> # vi
> ex/vi: Error: unknown: No such file or directory
Well, instead you'll get
ex/vi: Error: cons25: No such file or directory
because for $TERM to be meaningful, you need /usr/share/misc/termcap,
and /usr probably isn't mounted yet (assuming you've moved vi to /bin,
which means linking it statically)
DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
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