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Re: A bit OT: vi in telnet session
- To: Andreas Zielke <andreas dot zielke at sdm dot de>, cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: A bit OT: vi in telnet session
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 05:43:02 -0700 (PDT)
--- Andreas Zielke <andreas.zielke@sdm.de> wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I guess this posting is a bit off-topic, but I don't know any news-
> group that would be more appropriate. (If you do, please tell me.)
>
> When I telnet to a machine (running SunOS 5.7), using the telnet-
> program that comes with 1.1.4 Cygwin an start vi I get this error-
> message:
>
> bash-2.03$ vi
> cygwin: Unknown terminal type
> Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability
> :
>
> Is there a simple solution (like setting TERM to something else)
> to this?
>
Why didn't you try your suggestion? After telnetting, export TERM=<something
in the SunOS terminal database>. You could try xterm, ansi, linux, vt100,
vt200, etc.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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