In article <199906040419.XAA04019@polka.spot.org> wubi@iquest.net (Scot Bowlin) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>Now the problem. In single user mode when the IIcx asks for terminal type it
>will accept vt220. Everything works fine. But in multi-user mode when I log
>in as root to set up my user account no matter what I enter at the terminal
>type prompt is returned as type unknown. As I watch the boot messages I see
>that the root and user partitions are checked and declared clean. I have
>searched the mailing lists archives to no avail and none of the FAQ's seems
>to have an answer. Anyone know what I have done wrong or what I am missing?
>I can't even access the man pages from the multi-user mode, nothing seems to
>work. Thanks in advance.

at the shell prompt try setting the terminal to vt100 by
TERM=vt220; export TERM (bourne shell)
or
set term=vt220 (csh)

christos