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From: dave@celerity.uucp (Dave Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: vi in xterm under uwm isn't working right
Message-ID: <296@celit.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 21:46:29 GMT
References: <1274@pyrdc.UUCP>
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Reply-To: dave@celerity.UUCP (Dave Smith)
Organization: FPS Computing Inc., San Diego CA
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In article <1274@pyrdc.UUCP> mike@pyrdc.UUCP (Mike Whitman) writes:
>I have just gotten a NCD16 X terminal and I am having the following problem.
>When I fire up vi in a xterm window, vi will not move the text down in a window
>when i 'O'pen a new line above or below the current point. 

You probably don't have the "xterm" termcap entry defined in /etc/termcap
on the host system.  This resides in clients/xterm/termcap.  If xterm can't
find the xterm entry when it starts, it claims to be a vt100 although it
doesn't quite do a vt100; the line insert sequence is different and I'm not
sure how much else is, but it definitely doesn't work right.

David L. Smith
FPS Computing, San Diego
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