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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need to make "less" do a particular thing "right"
Message-ID: <15359@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 28 Feb 91 17:04:28 GMT
References: <1991Feb20.210427.26089@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb25.221941.7295@convex.com> <1991Feb28.142912.18391@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
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In article <1991Feb28.142912.18391@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>SunOS 4.1, for example, has a vi that completely ignores
>$TERMCAP.  (reset too, but that doesn't bother me - I never use it.)
>(Really Sun, aintcha never heard of compatibility?  Major pain to be
>suddenly unable to use vi.

That was unjustified -- if you had bothered to read the manual,
you might have discovered that SunOS "vi" these days uses terminfo,
not termcap.