From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 29 9:28:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE9C37B403 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 09:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f5TGScN69116; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:28:39 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200106291628.f5TGScN69116@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Alex Dyas Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vi - Terminal too wide (OT?) In-Reply-To: <911D8F660DF6D411B61F00500462BA01B08694@exchange.twowaytv.co.uk> From: Chris Fedde Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:28:38 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:10:23 +0100 Alex Dyas wrote: +------------------ | i have a problem with vi on solaris, whereby if i try to run it in a | terminal over 163 chars wide, i get an error "Terminal too wide". however, | i do the same thing in FreeBSD and it's fine. what's the difference? they | are obviously different versions of vi, but i was thinking more in terms of | maybe a setting i could change on the solaris box that allowed me large | terminal vi sessions. +------------------ You are right. They are different versions. The VI on solaris is pretty old. Many old unix tools suffer from fixed buffer syndrom. You've found an example of that. Get nvi sources from http://www.bostic.com/vi/, compile and install it. Or go to a sun freeware site and down load a package and install it. Then make sure that /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your path. A bit off topic but I hope this helps. chris -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message