Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:51:48 +0200 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "Gabriel Rossetti" <mailing_lists@evotex.ch> Cc: f-q <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up Message-ID: <14989d6e0705110751xb9806e2p48c86e465a12de57@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <464448B2.1020901@evotex.ch> References: <464448B2.1020901@evotex.ch>
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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
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