Subject: Re: 1.4Y, ex/vi: terminal type unknown
To: Rick Copeland <rickgc@calweb.com>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/04/2000 22:24:01
This seems to be a bug the terminal doesn't actually get set, even though 
you type a valid terminal type. Try typing
setenv TERM vt100
(or TERM=vt100; export TERM for sh or bash)
and it will work. Then go and edit /etc/ttys and set the default terminal
on the console to be vt100.

--Chuck

At 08:22 PM 6/4/00 -0700, Rick Copeland wrote:
>Hello All!
>
>I have loaded the snapshot 1.4Y into a 3600 and when I try to use vi I get
>"terminal type unknown" as shown below.  Any ideas as to how to get vi to
>work?
>
>TIA.
>
>
>NetBSD/vax (Amnesiac) (console)
>
>login: root
>Last login: Thu Jan 29 18:55:45 1998 on console
>Jan 29 19:14:39  login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON console
>Jan 29 19:14:39  login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON console
>Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
>         The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994
>         The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
>NetBSD 1.4Y (GENERIC) #56: Thu May 18 20:20:48 PDT 2000
>
>Welcome to NetBSD!
>
>Terminal type? [unknown] vt100
>Terminal type is vt100.
>We recommend creating a non-root account and using su(1) for root access.
># vi
>ex/vi: terminal type unknown
>#