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Date:      Thu, 7 Mar 2019 21:25:12 -0800
From:      bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
Subject:   Re: Editing on the serial console
Message-ID:  <20190308052512.GA49607@www.zefox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1401d70e-93a7-e98e-0256-03c551ab2ce5@denninger.net>
References:  <20190307035427.GA42903@www.zefox.net> <1401d70e-93a7-e98e-0256-03c551ab2ce5@denninger.net>

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On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 11:14:36PM -0600, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 3/6/2019 21:54, bob prohaska 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?
> >
> > I'm dealing with Raspberry Pi, but am not sure if that's
> > the source of the difficulty.
> >
> > Thanks for reading,
> >
> > bob prohaska
> I haven't had serious trouble doing so using Putty as my serial
> terminal....

Indeed, it seems to work rather well. 

Thank you!

bob prohaska




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