[15548] in Athena Bugs
dialup telnet vi problem...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Thu Oct 2 11:27:59 1997
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 11:27:57 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Steve Lee (slee) reports that when he telnets from an Athena sparc 4
to either express.dialup or athena.dialup, then tries to use vi (with
:set nu), it shows him the file from line 41 on, NOT from line 1 on.
The text shown is from line 41. Tests on a dummy file showed that
although it showed him line 41, deleting the line removed line 1.
He said that doing this from a differently sized window got him
different starting lines (e.g. 31 instead of 41).
printenv TERM showed xterm
He does not have a .exrc file
WORKAROUND: doing "setenv TERM vt100" let him use vi.
(I tried telnetting to express.dialup and athena.dialup from a sparc5
and using vi, but could not duplicate the problem.)
