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From: piner@newton.physics.purdue.edu (Richard Piner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
Subject: Re: vi/stevie termcap
Keywords: vi stevie TOP termcap
Message-ID: <4114@newton.physics.purdue.edu>
Date: 15 Sep 90 08:17:28 GMT
References: <1990Sep14.140735.15124@cs.utk.edu>
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept, W.Lafayette, IN
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In article <1990Sep14.140735.15124@cs.utk.edu> bangsal@ornl.gov (Alex Bangs) writes:
>I've been working with the TOP package recently, and I have been unable
>to get vi and stevie to work on my OSK systems.  Both return the error
>"vi: Incomplete Termcap entry" (or stevie: ...).  I am using the
>standard Microware termcap in /h0/sys.  I have also tried using a
>termcap from a Unix system, but that didn't help.

I can't say for sure about stevie, but vi insist that the terminal be able
to scroll backwards. Hence vi will work with a vt102, but not a vt100.
This limitation does not exist with UNIX vi. Since the Atari terminal
emulator can scroll backwards and much of TOPS was done on Atari machines,
well ..........

						R. Piner