Re: Problems with nvi
Dale Martin writes:
>I'm using nvi 1.34-12 with curses 3.0, and SOMETIMES when I remotely
>login into a debian box, nvi core dumps. That is, if it core dumps
>once, it will ALWAYS core dump for that login. Other times, I can
>run nvi remotely no problem.
This can happen if the TERM variable isn't set correctly/at all.
>The other weird problem I have is that some of the users on the same
>system ALWAYS get 0x7f's in their documents when they type
>backspaces. Is this related to all of the other backspace weirdness
>I've been seeing ever since I started with Linux? (I have _never_
>seen backspace work "out of the box" on elm subject lines for
>Slackware, or Debian. I haven't tried it on Red Hat.) I do realize
>this could be configuration problem on my end.
Do
stty erase \^?
in your shell and see if that helps.
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Richard Kettlewell
http://www.elmail.co.uk/staff/richard/ richard@elmail.co.uk
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