Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:51:48PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > > >> On 11/05/07, Gabriel Rossetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end >>> up copying the file to be edited to a floppy et be able to edit it from >>> another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into >>> single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is >>> messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee, >>> edit (ee I think), and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's >>> impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but >>> it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does >>> anyone know how to fix it? >>> > > The two main problems are making sure the editors are available > and making sure you have a terminal type that will work. > > Do the following: > fsck -p > mount -u / > mount -a > swapon -a > > To make sure files are available. > > Then, for termtype, if you are using tcsh which is most common on FreeBSD do > set term=vt100 > > or if in sh do as Christian Walther indicated > > ////jerry > > > Ok, thanks Jerry! >> You could try to set a decent TERM-variable, such as >> >> TERM=vt100 >> export TERM >> >> HTH >> Christian >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
