Stan, i'm sorry i sent the 1st email too soon w/o even thinking, anyway, if you're using bash and a few other shells, you have to do an $export TERM=vt100 if you're using csh or tcsh, do a $set TERM=vt100
merry christmas everyone ! Chad > When runing a remote xterm on a non-Debian box, if I invoke vi, the > fon'ts get trashed to somehting totaly unreadable. I have to use the > pulldown menu to do a full reset on the xterm, and then a control L to > redraw the screen. > > Anyone have an idea what's wrong here? > >-- >Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] >770-996-6955 >Factory Automation Systems >Atlanta Ga. >-- >Windows 98: n. > minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a > 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit > microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit > of competition. >- >(c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited.

