Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!asp From: asp@uunet.UU.NET (Andrew Partan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Help wanted getting MIPS box operational Keywords: console terminal type???, vi crashes Message-ID: <69198@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 4 Oct 89 00:19:16 GMT Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 16 We just got in a MIPS RS 2030 box. I am having a devil of a time getting it operational. It boots, I start looking at some files, find one that I want to modify, vi the file, and vi will seemingly randomly crash & fill the screen with 1's or 2's. I can only get it back by hard rebooting (control/alt/delete). This has happened about 6 or 7 times now - I have lost count. I think that the problem is related to not knowing what terminal type the console emulates. I have been setting it to 'vt100' - that is what is in /etc/ttytype after all. I have yet to find anything in the documentation that tells me what I should be doing, & I am already most of the way through the Sys Admin's guide. Frustratedly yours, --asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan) ASN.1 Object Identifier: "{joint-iso-ccitt mhs(6) group(6) 157}"