problems using vi

Everett · Everett #1 (**permalink**)

11-05-2006, 11:39 AM

Hi boys and girls,

I'm having a little problem and I hope someone could help me out.

The problem arises whenever I try to modify any file on my solaris system using vi. I'm using Solaris 10 and Mac OSX operating Systems. I'm connected to Solaris through SSH.

Now, when I try to modify any file, I tend to get this message (shown below). How can I get around this?

vi shutdown
xterm-color: Unknown terminal type
I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'.
[Using open mode]
"shutdown" [Read only] 218 lines, 4094 characters
#!/sbin/sh

The result is the same if I run the command from both the superuser console or just an ordinary cosole.

Thanks in advance.

rman · rman #2 (**permalink**)

11-06-2006, 12:38 AM

set your terminal type to vt100 and you should be okay.

rman #2 (permalink)
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Everett #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Dec 23, 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 44 Mac Specs: PowerBook G4 17", 1.67GHz, 2GB RAM, 120 GB HDD. Ipod 20GB	11-05-2006, 11:39 AM Hi boys and girls, I'm having a little problem and I hope someone could help me out. The problem arises whenever I try to modify any file on my solaris system using vi. I'm using Solaris 10 and Mac OSX operating Systems. I'm connected to Solaris through SSH. Now, when I try to modify any file, I tend to get this message (shown below). How can I get around this? vi shutdown xterm-color: Unknown terminal type I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'. [Using open mode] "shutdown" [Read only] 218 lines, 4094 characters #!/sbin/sh The result is the same if I run the command from both the superuser console or just an ordinary cosole. Thanks in advance.
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