Vi not recognizing terminal type

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Y'all catch dis heeyah?  Mike Rathburn been jivin' 'bout like:
> 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?

Lack of an entry in /etc/termcap.

at386 isn't exactly one of those "standard" ones I'd expect to be on any
stock system--especially Solaris.

Try setting to vt100, using vi to adjust what you need, and then set it to
your corrected entry.

I'd be very surprised if vt100 is not present.

mark->
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