On Sun, 07 Jun 1998 22:02:15 EDT George Coulouris writes
 
> Another strange thing is with vi. When I try to use it, the
> arrow keys generate bogus characters (A,B,C,D). If I change
> TERM to vt100, it works ok. If I then change TERM back to vt220,
> it _still_ works ok.

I think I remember that this is caused by the vt220 emulation in pcvt 
starting out in a wrong mode. Try writing ESC[?1l to the screen first. 
(ESC is the escape character).
 
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