Vi not recognizing terminal type

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Mar 17 17:42:42 PST 2005


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> 
> I have also seen in the past on several different systems that if there was
> an incorrect entry in the termcap (an error in the format), that it would
> not read the termcap (or read it only up until the error).  I had this
> happen when I incorrectly edited one of the entries one time.  Lost the
> ability to use vi.

Now that you mention it, I've seen that.  I figured that was something out
of antiquity that would've been fixed by now.  But it could be the case.

mark->
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