Vi not recognizing terminal type

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|From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
|[mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of 
|Fairlight
|Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:53 PM
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|Subject: Re: Vi not recognizing terminal type
|
|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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Like I said, it burps on -any- term type that I use.  I can 'cat' the
/etc/termcap file and see that I have entries in there for at386, vt100,
etc. etc.  I just can't run 'vi'.

Weird.

-MikeR