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From: jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: vi via remote login
Summary: workaround...
Keywords: vi, rlogin, AIX 2.2.1
Message-ID: <967@applix.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 89 18:54:45 GMT
References: <710@dutrun.UUCP>
Organization: APPLiX Inc., Westboro MA
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In article <710@dutrun.UUCP>, vlruo02@dutrun.UUCP (Ge van Geldorp) writes:
> We recently installed some RT's running AIX 2.2.1. The whole
> installation went rather smoothly and we are pleased with the systems.
> When loggin in on the console, vi works just as it should. When logging
> in from a remote system using the `rlogin' command (with the environment
> variable TERM set to vt100) vi usually complains "Don't know enough about
> your terminal to use visual" and puts me in ex. 

This has hosed me too, for some reason only on my Xenix systems with Excelan
TCP/IP rlogin. If I rlogin from a BSD machine (SunOS or Ultrix) it doesn't
happen. Also, If I telnet instead of rlogin, I can use vi...
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Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
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