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- From: dannyj@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Danny K. Jain)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: Terminal type in TERM of windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.205754.27384@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 20:57:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.185114.3849@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas
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- mhs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (mostafa.hashem.sherif) writes:
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- >I have provisioned my terminal type to be VT100 in the Terminal
- >program for windows 3.1.
- >Tried to access a Unix machine and use vi to process a file.
- >The file was garbled.
- >It seems that the Term type on both sides do not match up.
- >Where should I start looking to solve the problem?
- >Any hints would be appreciated.
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- >M. H. Sherif
- >AT&T Bell Laboratories
- >+1 908 949-0439
-
- The first step is to find out what the unix machine thinks the term is.
- In Unix c-shell, type
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- echo $term
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- to get the terminal type. If it is not vt100, set it to vt100 using
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- set term=vt100
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- Then try to vi the file, and it should be better.
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- -Danny Jain
-