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From: daisy@mavrick.UUCP (daisy basto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How to set TERM for Televideo?
Keywords: Televideo
Message-ID: <251@mavrick.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 90 06:59:54 GMT
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Hello, can someone shed a little light on how to set up a terminal?
I'm trying to use an old Televideo connected to tty0 on a serial port.
After I logged on and set TERM=tvi950, the system still cannot run any
screen-oriented programs such as vi. When I try to edit a file with vi
it will respond with  [Using open mode]. Most other commands run fine.

I can see the termcap entry for the Televideo in /etc/termcap. Is there 
something else that I need to do to make it understand the new TERM entry?

Thanks, Daisy.