Vi not recognizing terminal type

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When asked his whereabouts on Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 01:31:18PM -0500,
DataDoIt took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> 
> 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'.

Are you -sure- it's standard vi, and not vim?  Because vim would require
terminfo, not termcap, and that's a whole other kettle of fish.  It's also
the only thing I can conceive at the moment that would explain what you're
encountering--short of an /etc/termcap that has no read bits set.

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