Try to : stty rows 24 cols 80 setenv TERM xterm once you get a prompt. I'm telnet'ing from a machine with vt100 to a sun and with those I can do whatever after entering them. ;-) Good luck! M. > > I need to ssh to a sun machine and then run vi. Actually, I need to run > edquota which then runs vi. But I'm having trouble because the terminal type > is 'linux'. Apparently, sun doesn't know about that terminal type. I know I > can set the terminal type by saying something like 'set TERM=vt100'. The > problem with that is that I'm not using a vt100, I'm sshing from a linux > box. If I do that, vi doesn't give me an error message but the keys don't > work either. > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list