Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:23:12 +0200 From: Gabriel Rossetti <mailing_lists@evotex.ch> To: Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up Message-ID: <464AF7B0.2070909@evotex.ch> In-Reply-To: <14989d6e0705110751xb9806e2p48c86e465a12de57@mail.gmail.com> References: <464448B2.1020901@evotex.ch> <14989d6e0705110751xb9806e2p48c86e465a12de57@mail.gmail.com>
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Christian Walther wrote: > On 11/05/07, Gabriel Rossetti <mailing_lists@evotex.ch> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end >> up copying the file to be edited to a floppy et be able to edit it from >> another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into >> single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is >> messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee, >> edit (ee I think), and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's >> impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but >> it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does >> anyone know how to fix it? > > You could try to set a decent TERM-variable, such as > > TERM=vt100 > export TERM > > HTH > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Ok, thanks Christian!
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