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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!sloane
  2. From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
  3. Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
  4. Subject: Re: posix question: vi on telnet vs kermit
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug25.114722.42548@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
  6. Date: 25 Aug 92 11:47:22 CDT
  7. References: <1992Aug18.203710.202437@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
  8. Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
  9. Lines: 16
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Aug18.203710.202437@uctvax.uct.ac.za>,
  12.  bbbbre01@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Doon) writes:
  13. > In comp.editors there's a thread about VI being a 
  14. > wonderful editor - so I'd like to try it out:
  15. >     $posix posix$bin:vi.
  16. > gives the error "not enough memory for screens"
  17.  
  18. Try doing:
  19.  
  20. $ SET TERM/VT100
  21. $ POSIX/RUN POSIX$BIN:VI.
  22.  
  23. Apparantly, POSIX VI doesn't like some terminal types, including VT102.
  24. -- 
  25. USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
  26. E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 
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