Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: sequent!ccssrv!perry@tektronix.TEK.COM (Perry Hutchison) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: vi thinks screen is very short Keywords: Software Message-ID: <2012@brazos.Rice.edu> Date: 6 Oct 89 01:38:10 GMT Sender: root@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 11 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 156, message 12 of 21 One of our diskless 3/50's here did something very strange, and I wonder if anyone can explain it. Whenever the user started vi in any of his Suntools windows, it would only use the bottom few lines of the screen. Logging out and back in did not help, but after rebooting the node everything was normal. This is with SunOS 3.5. Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? If it happens again, is there a less severe cure than rebooting? The "From" address in the header does not work. This does: ... tektronix!sequent!ccssrv!perry