Need to make "less" do a particular thing "right"

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Fri Mar 1 04:04:28 AEST 1991


In article <1991Feb28.142912.18391 at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse at thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>SunOS 4.1, for example, has a vi that completely ignores
>$TERMCAP.  (reset too, but that doesn't bother me - I never use it.)
>(Really Sun, aintcha never heard of compatibility?  Major pain to be
>suddenly unable to use vi.

That was unjustified -- if you had bothered to read the manual,
you might have discovered that SunOS "vi" these days uses terminfo,
not termcap.



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