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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!kettle.magna.com.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!EU.net!uknet!eldorado.net-tel.co.uk!usenet From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Subject: Re: Problem with vi editor in FreeBSD 2.01 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: evening-star.net-tel.co.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <DGnsoD.LII@net-tel.co.uk> Sender: usenet@net-tel.co.uk (usenet poster) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd References: <45m8fq$6vv@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> <460bkk$id0@spider.hik.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 19:26:36 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Url: news:460bkk$id0@spider.hik.se Lines: 13 Kristofer Pettersson <thek@erika.fdata.se> wrote: >Hmm, I've also had this problem running vt100 agains a SUN solaris 2.3 machine. > I have also run into this with a wide range of terminal emulator/telnet combinations (which previously worked with TERM=vt100 on Sun, MIPS etc.) However, on closer inspection all of these terminals actually claimed to be emulating VT102 rather than VT100, and indeed changing to TERM=vt102 on the FreeBSD machine fixed the problem! I had previously thought that vt100 was a sub-set of vt102 - I have yet to determine whether I thought wrong or if the vt100 termcap is wrong in FreeBSD.