ssh to sun terminal type

[Marian Selea]

Try to :

stty rows 24 cols 80
setenv TERM xterm

once you get a prompt.
I'm telnet'ing from a machine with vt100 to a sun and with those I can do whatever after entering them. ;-)

Good luck!

M.
> 
> 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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