Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!mcvax!unido!ifcom!hst
From: hst@ifcom.UUCP (Hartmut Streppel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: rlogin to an RT prevents using vi
Keywords: TCP, vi, rlogin
Message-ID: <396@ifcom.UUCP>
Date: 14 Aug 89 16:11:53 GMT
Organization: InterFace Computer, Muenchen, BRD
Lines: 21

We have a PC/RT running AIX 2.2.1 connected to our LAN, 
consisting of a Sequent Balance,
a Prime Exl 386, a Bull SPS 7, a Sun and sometimes other workstations,
via TCP/IP. If we use rlogin to login from one of the machines mentioned
above to the RT, and then try to use  vi on the RT, vi fails giving 
the message: "Don't know enough your terminal to use visual"

We have checked the stty settings, the environment variables, the terminfo
files, the configuration of the pts; everything is ok.

The funny thing is: when the system has just been rebooted, a single DEL before
you call vi, might make it work. Is it possible that the driver gets some
new information by this interrupt. Is this a vi problem?

By the way, using telnet we have no problems using vi on the RT.

Any help or ideas? Pleas email!

Hartmut Streppel, InterFace Computer GmbH, Garmischer Str. 4,
8000 Muenchen 2,  West Germany
Tel: +49-89-51086-35, FAX: +49-89-51086-28,  uucp: ...!mcvax!unido!ifcom!hst