>>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 7:59 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Susan Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Since with z/VM 5.3 a guest can now access the HMC ASCII terminal...we > wanted to test the ability to use the HMC ASCII terminal to edit a file > using vi.
Ok, that makes some sense to me. Thanks for explaining. > -snip- >> My guests have this: > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear /dev/ttyS0 dumb=20 > > However, as you pointed out, your guests use "mingetty" and "dumb", and as > we already have an entry for that in our /etc/inittab we should be okay as > is. I would think not. The "dumb" parameter will cause a number of ncurses-based tools to complain about not having a "full function" terminal, throwing you into a mode that you probably won't be familiar with either. I would replace the "dumb" with vt220. I would also check to make sure you have the proper terminfo files installed by doing this: ssh ip.addr.your.system export TERM=vt220 vi some.existing.file If vi doesn't complain, and you're able to edit the file normally, then you should be OK. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
