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From: Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>
To: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au>
Cc: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>, freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Editing on the serial console
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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 05:08:07PM +1030, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
> 
> > On 7 Mar 2019, at 14:24, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console 
> > is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying 
> > the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't
> > much fun. Is there a better option?  When the machine 
> > boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap", 
> > is something misconfigured?
> 
> /etc/termcap is a symlink to /usr/share/misc/termcap - if you mount /usr (read only is fine) then it should work.
> 
> ie since you are in single user mode only / has been mounted.
> 
> If / and /usr are the same FS them something else is wrong :)

There is /etc/termcap.small, and I remember our libcurses uses TERMCAP
env variable to point to the termcap file.