vi question - unknown terminal type

Art Neilson art at pilikia.pegasus.com
Fri Mar 1 20:17:10 AEST 1991


In article <967 at twg.bc.ca> bill at twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin) writes:
>ratazzie at lonex.radc.af.mil (Edward P. Ratazzi) writes:
>
>} Recently, I added some new termcap entries to the end of our /etc/termcap
>} file.  Everything seems to work O.K. with these terminals, EXCEPT vi.
>} When vi is started, we get an 'Unknown terminal type' message.  The terminal
>} name IS in /etc/termcap.  Where else does vi look?  What might be the problem?
>
>I've also seen situations where a previous termcap description
>does not terminate correctly, thereby including your new terminal
>definition as part of the previous one.

Or perhaps the system Edward is on has terminfo.
If his system does have terminfo, vi probably uses it.
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