Hyperterminal/vi problems

[ponetguy2]

I just finished installing solaris 9 on a V480. I intalled solaris 9 through a
hyperterminal session from a windows 2k machine. The installation
was successfull, but I'm having problems when I try to vi any configuration file.

When I tried to comment out a certain field by pressing esc and then i, then shift
#, the screen gets all weird.

Is there a setting I forgot to setup in Hyperterminal?

COM1 Properties, Port Settings:
· Bits per Second: select 9600 (or desired baud rate)
· Data Bits: select 8
· Parity: select None
· Stop Bits: select 1
· Flow Control: select none

On the Solaris box, I made sure that I set the env variable as TERM=vt100.

 

[cndcadams]

ponetguy2:

It is probably going into open mode which can scramble things on you;

Try doing the following;

vi <yourfilename>
1. Q {shift/q, enable EX mode}
2. :set term=sun {sets the term-type}
3. :1vi {go to full-screen Visual editor}

Let me know if this works;

Thanks

CA

 

[bfitzmai]

I talked to some people who use hyterterminal and vi... One guy said vi doesn't work unless he enters command:

export TERM=vt100

 

[kHz]

On the solaris server do TERM=vt100; export TERM

and on the Windows machine in hyperterm you need to change the properties for the term type to vt100.