>Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 18:17:07 GMT
>From: Thorsten Frueauf <frueauf@ira.uka.de>

>Assuming ~user/foo exists and is a valid textfile, readable by the one that
>trys to include it. Now start vi then ":r ~user/foo", you will get:
>
>Error: ^[[H^[[2J/home/user/foo: No such file or directory.
>
>If you try ":r /home/user/foo" the file gets included like expected.

vi uses your shell (taken from the SHELL environment var) to expand
the ~.  If your login shell is /bin/csh, then it will execute your
.cshrc.  Something in your .cshrc is generating the extra characters,
probably /usr/bin/tset.

Don't run tset from your .cshrc.  Or at least add the following bit
of code to the beginning:

if ( ! $?prompt ) exit

RTFM for further details.
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