On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:51:48PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: > On 11/05/07, Gabriel Rossetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end > >up copying the file to be edited to a floppy et be able to edit it from > >another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into > >single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is > >messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee, > >edit (ee I think), and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's > >impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but > >it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does > >anyone know how to fix it?
The two main problems are making sure the editors are available and making sure you have a terminal type that will work. Do the following: fsck -p mount -u / mount -a swapon -a To make sure files are available. Then, for termtype, if you are using tcsh which is most common on FreeBSD do set term=vt100 or if in sh do as Christian Walther indicated ////jerry > > You could try to set a decent TERM-variable, such as > > TERM=vt100 > export TERM > > HTH > Christian > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
