From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 16 14:13:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA04954 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:13:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA04944 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 14:13:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA01639; Tue, 16 Dec 1997 21:53:01 GMT Message-ID: <3496FE16.F95E4A57@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:17:58 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Sandiford , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with ee on FreeBSD-2.2.5 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Bill, 'ee' giving weird responses is probably down to the terminal your using - what emulation does the terminal do? (for example, the ones that come with Windows '95 & NT4 are just about 'VT100' and 'VT52' compatible)... It could be the system doesn't know about the terminal your using - try one of the following after you have logged in: setenv TERM vt100 (for tcsh & similar shells) -or- set TERM=vt100;export TERM (for csh or 'classic' shells - replace 'VT100' with what you think your using, e.g. VT52, VT220 etc.) If you want to change the editor that chpass, chsh etc. use - when you've logged in edit your '.cshrc' file - the settings are in their (just change the /usr/bin/ee to /usr/bin/vi) Regards, Karl Bill Sandiford wrote: > > When I telnet to my FreeBSD box and try to do anything that uses ee as a > default editor weird things happen. The ee screen comes up. When I try > to hit the arrow keys, weird menus pop up and stuff. However when I run > it from the console no problems occur. Question is, what is causing this, > is it a terminal problem? Also is there anyway to replace ee as the > default editor for commands like edquota and chpass. > > Bill Sandiford