Vi not recognizing terminal type

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005, Chad McWilliams wrote:
>...
>
>> 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->
>> -- 
>
>You'd think, but I the last time I ran into it was recently with FreeBSD
>5.3.  I was playing with the SCOANSI entry in the termcap and made a
>mistake.  Fun, fun, fun.

That's why one makes a copy in /usr/local/etc/termcap and sets the TERMCAP
environment variable to point to it.  It also prevents vendor modifications
from screwing up your carefully crafted changes (as though Sun is going to
be updating SunOS any time soon).

Bill
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