ssh to sun terminal type

John Heim jheim at math.wisc.edu
Thu Jul 31 15:56:18 UTC 2008


I need to ssh to a sun machine and then run vi. Actually, I need to run 
edquota which then runs vi. But I'm having trouble because the terminal type 
is 'linux'. Apparently, sun doesn't know about that terminal type. I know I 
can set the terminal type by saying something like 'set TERM=vt100'. The 
problem with that is that I'm not using a vt100, I'm sshing from a linux 
box. If I do that, vi doesn't give me an error message but the keys don't 
work either.





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