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To: netbsd-amiga@cbmuucp.commodore.com
Subject: vi and /etc/termcap
Sender: NetBSD-Admin@cbmuucp.commodore.com
I've got vmunix.531 running, the one, which knows how to handle an
A2000 RTC, with usrsbin.tgz and usrbin.tgz installed. Quite nice, but
I cannot use vi nor more. I do not like vi, but it's beautiful
compared to ed and sed for editing /etc/passwd.
The bad thing is: vi can't read /etc/termcap :-( which means,
that vi does not edit anything. Actually it quits as soon
as it find's out, that it can't read /etc/termcap.
I found out, that /etc/termcap usually is a symbolic link
to /usr/share/.../termcap.src which I did not install.
"Ok" I thought "let me copy a real termcap from a real
UN*X machine." That's what I did and afterwards I had
a long termcap file and no symbolic link any more.
A 'ls -l /etc/termcap' yields
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root 133439 Aug 1 22:00 /etc/termcap
which seems to be ok. At least that's ok to me.
But 'vi' does'n agree. Neither does 'more'.
'cat' does. And all other programs do.
Weird.
I'd like to edit /etc/fstab, /etc/passwd, /etc/group etc., but I
cannot use ed. And as Emacs uses /etc/termcap, I guess emacs won't
work either.
Why does vi not work? What is wrong with /etc/termcap?
Bye, Harald (who would like to use Lucid-emacs on his Amiga)