From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 10 20:55:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA02400 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sebastion.mfn.org (sebastion.mfn.org [204.238.179.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA02383 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 20:55:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@sebastion.mfn.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by sebastion.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA00283 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:49:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from root) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 17:49:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Charlie Root Message-Id: <199805102249.RAA00283@sebastion.mfn.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ex/vi error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG For no apparent reason I have encountered an irreconcilable error when trying to work in vi: one second it was fine, and the next second it was broken... Whenever I try to run it, regardless of what user (I've tried a few, including root) I run as, or *where* I run, it *ALWAYS* refuses to run, complaining as follows: Error: tigetnum: lines: No such file or directory ex/vi: Error: unknown: no such file or directory What file or diectory could it be looking for??? /tmp has about 40mb to play with, as do most of the others. I have made *no* changes to my file trees prior to this event... TIA J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message