problems using vi

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.

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