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From: chas@netcom.UUCP (Chuck Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: versaterm vs. vi on SunOS 4.1
Message-ID: <20973@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 91 19:18:24 GMT
References: <47841@andante.att.com>
Organization: Netcom- The Bay Area's Public Access Unix System {408 241-9760 guest}
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In article <47841@andante.att.com> mp@andante.att.com (Mark Plotnick) writes:
>One person here has versaterm on his home Mac and dials up the UNIX
>systems at work.  He says that he's used the UNIX terminal type "hp"
>(though possibly it's "2621"; we don't know what he types into his
>.profile to set the terminal type) and things have worked fine, under
>SunOS 3.2 and 4.0.1.  Then he got a new Sun that ran SunOS 4.1.  Now he
>says that when he runs "vi" he just gets garbage printed on the
>screen.  Does anybody have any ideas on what we could change to help
>him?  We unfortunately have no info on his type of Mac, version of
>versaterm, or the emulation it's running (we've tried to get more info,
>but it's difficult.  It took weeks before he even told us he was using
>versaterm; we had thought he was using some kind of HP terminal).

For best results using SunOS and VersaTerm, I would suggest installing
the supplied VersaTerm termcap entry in the user's home directory on
the Sun.  When logging into the Sun, specify "versaterm" as the
terminal type.  Complete instructions on installing the supplied
termcap entry are in the VersaTerm manual.

VersaTerm supports several types of DEC terminal emulations along with
Tektronix and Data General, but no HP specific terminals.  Perhaps an
HP can be made to emulate a DEC terminal for the purposes of
compatibility.  Certainly there are native termcap entries supplied
with SunOS for a variety of HP terminals.

Chuck

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