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From: chrisdu@sco.COM (Chris Durham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: vi and rlogin
Message-ID: <17532@scorn.sco.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 91 21:03:35 GMT
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In article <17523@scorn.sco.COM> timr@sco.COM (Tim Ruckle) writes:
:
:In article <852@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:
:} When using "vi" under SCO Unix (or Xenix) after making a "rlogin"
:>} connection (i.e. the SCO box is the remote machine), using the arrow
:>} keys is a pain.  I know that running "stty min 3 time 10" helps
:>} make the problem go away, but I can't figure out how to get "vi" to
:>} honor the changes.
:>
:>This is a known problem, and the easiest work-around is to use telnet
:>instead of rlogin.
:>


You can also use:

:set notimeout

in vi or in your .exrc


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