From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 00:10:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA11336 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from wakko.gil.net (keithl@wakko.gil.net [207.100.79.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA11331 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 00:10:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (keithl@localhost) by wakko.gil.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id DAA20019; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 03:12:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 03:12:18 -0500 (EST) From: Keith Leonard To: Christoph Kukulies cc: wasanp@geocities.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VI Editor In-Reply-To: <199701310659.HAA15179@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Per the handbook and the kernel (GENERIC) the use of the 'TERM=scoansi' will solve some problems with full screen programs. Because my ISP uses 'Linux' I finally setteled on 386at-m as my term type for pine and vi (I telnet to his mail server to read my mail) > > When logging in at the console your TERM variable should be set to > cons25. > > What does echo $TERM give? > Keith keithl@wakko.gil.net ------------------------------------------------------ Character is what you are in the dark - John Warfin ------------------------------------------------------