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From: rik@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Elvis
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.043238.4063@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 4 Mar 91 04:32:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar1.181320.6868@infonode.ingr.com> <4682@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Organization: Monash University, Caulfield Campus
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mtpins@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Firestar) writes:

>From article <1991Mar1.181320.6868@infonode.ingr.com>, by hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche):
>> 
>> While in search of a vi editor for the Amiga, I came aross something
>> called elvis.  All that was in the archive was some binary files, the
>> editor, and a termcap file.  No docs.  How do you get this program to
>> run.

>I will probably put a doc file in the one I have on isca.icaen.uiowa.edu. 
>because I never would have figured it out without the help of snoopdos.
> 
>To get elvis to run - copy the termcap to S:
>                      "setenv TERM AA"
>                      run vi

>Everything should then work.  I seem to remember changing the li# in termcap
>to 23 as that's all the lines you actually get on the workbench screen.

I have 30 lines on my shell screen (as I have a PAL machine).  When I
tried to add another entry (eg amiga30), it did not recognise the new
terminal.  Even the amiga48 that was there already did not work.  I
had to change the li# entry, but you shouldn't have to do that.  I
expect to require a number of other terminals (t10, vt100, vt330, etc)
and I want to know why I can't add new entries to the termcap file.
Any clues, anyone?

>					Firestar
rik
-- 
Rik Harris - rik@sola.fcit.monash.edu.au or harris@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au
who died of administration on the 20th of December 1990
Faculty of Computing and Information Technology,
Monash University, Caulfield Campus, Australia