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Re: rlogin gets confused.

#350
From: Jamie Watson
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1989 14:50
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>    First, this is a 6150-135 running AIX 2.2.1 with a baseband adapter
>
>1. rlogin -- Coming from a VAX running BSD4.3, ...  When I rlogin to the
>RT and try to use vi, I get 'Don't know enough about your terminal'.

This is a known problem with the rlogind that IBM uses in AIX.  It has
been discussed in this newsgroup recently, and I have reported it to IBM
support (as have several others).  The only solution is to log out, and
rlogin again.  If you are lucky, it will be ok the second time.  If not,
it might take you three or four tries.

There is a simple way to tell if it is right or not, without having to
wait for vi to fail; try 'termdef -l' or 'termdef -c'.  If they report 0,
it's wrong.  I have added one of these commands to my .profile, so when
I rlogin, I see during the login process if I am screwed or not.

jw
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Subject: Re: rlogin gets confused.
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