Vi not recognizing terminal type

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2005, Mike Rathburn wrote:
>This isn't really off topic since I need to adjust the termcap to make
>filePro play nice...
>
>I'm on an old Sun system where 'vi' does not recognize any terminal type I
>throw at it.  Ex:
>
>$ vi /etc/termcap
>At386: Unknown terminal type
>I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'at386'.
>[Using open mode]
>
>Running filePro in most term types works okay (even the at386 above).  Just
>need to do some adjustments to others.
>
>What makes vi not like the term types?

It's been quite a while since I did anything on SunOS, but if I remember
correctly, vi probably uses /etc/termcap while FilePro uses this plus its
own version of termcap.

Bill
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