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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:51:48 +0200
From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com>
To: "Gabriel Rossetti" <mailing_lists@evotex.ch>
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Subject: Re: edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up
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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