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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi question - unknown terminal type
Keywords: vi, termcap
Message-ID: <6404@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 2 Mar 91 19:56:29 GMT
References: <967@twg.bc.ca> <1991Mar01.091710.25962@pilikia.pegasus.com> <1991Mar1.194441.5276@lonex.radc.af.mil>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Yup, that's it.  I had just upgraded from SunOS 4.0.3 to SunOS 4.1.1.  In
>that upgrade, vi goes from being termcap-dependent to terminfo-dependent.

And for those of you curious why this was done, read the message titled
"vi and non-ascii characters" in this very newsgroup/mailing list - the
SunOS 4.1[.x] "vi" is based on the System V Release 3.1 "vi", because
the latter version, unlike the 4.3BSD-vintage "vi" used prior to that,
supports 8-bit character sets such as ISO Latin #1, and making the
4.3BSD-vintage one handle 8-bit character sets would have been a lot
more complicated than just switching to the S5R3.1 "vi".