TKIRKMAN%MOE@MSUS1.MSUS.EDU (Tom Kirkman) (04/29/91)
Many thanks to the net for lots of helpful replys on how to nroff man pages on a Sun (I was doing lots of things wrong, including not using -man on nroff) You all helped so much that I have yet another stupid unix question. Here is my story: At St. John's most remote student users access the PI 4D25G by logging in to a VMS VAX (on hard-wired terminals) & then telneting the PI (using UCX on an ethernet connection). Apparently the VAX passes TERM=vt200 to the PI, but there is no /usr/lib/terminfo/v/vt200 file (although there is a vt220 file). So I used infocmp vt220 >vt200.tic, editted the first line of the vt200.tic file to read vt200, and finally tic vt200.tic. The result (A) doesn't allow VI to work & (B) works incorrectly in a different way if I: setenv TERM vt100, vi stuff, exit, setenv TERM vt200, vi stuff. So I'm probably doing something both stupid & wrong. So, my question is, how can I make VI work for students who telnet to our PI & hence automatically have TERM=vt200. (PS, the terms really are visual 603s with escape & backspace keys) PPS I have lots of other stupid terminal/VAX related questions: Should I/how do I make delete be the backspace key for those telneted vt220s? I know I should get emacs pdq, but I would also like EDT & TPU emulators for these students. Can you suggest any? How about using the console keyboard in a session telneted to the VMS vax... any suggested keybinding to make using EDT & TPU easier? UCX seems to lack hooks for remote printing. Any cheap alternatives or workarounds? Again, many thanks for past (& I hope future) responses. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Kirkman DECnet: 55860::TKIRKMAN Dept. of Physics HEP-> MNHEP::55860:: SPAN-> WAVES::55860:: St. John's University INTERnet: tkirkman%55860@vx.acs.umn.edu Collegeville, MN 56321 tkirkman%55860@msus1.msus.edu (612) 363-3811 BITnet: tkirkman@csbsju (612) 363-3151 FAX:(612) 363-2504 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------