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Re: posix question: vi on telnet vs kermit

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From: Bob Sloane
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 16:47
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In article <1992Aug18.203710.202437@uctvax.uct.ac.za>,
 bbbbre01@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Doon) writes:
> In comp.editors there's a thread about VI being a 
> wonderful editor - so I'd like to try it out:
> 	$posix posix$bin:vi.
> gives the error "not enough memory for screens"

Try doing:

$ SET TERM/VT100
$ POSIX/RUN POSIX$BIN:VI.

Apparantly, POSIX VI doesn't like some terminal types, including VT102.
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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: vmsnet.misc
Subject: Re: posix question: vi on telnet vs kermit
Message-ID: <1992Aug25.114722.42548@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 25 Aug 92 11:47:22 CDT
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