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From: rharmon@srg (Robert B. Harmon x4964)
Subject: Re: vi and rlogin
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Date: 6 Jun 91 09:34:42
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In-Reply-To: jim@tiamat.fsc.com's message of 4 Jun 91 17:11:10 GMT
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In article <852@tiamat.fsc.com> jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager) writes:
>>
>>  I remember seeing something about this once, so I checked the FAQ and
>>  it wasn't there, so I'll ask again.
>>
>>  When using "vi" under SCO Unix (or Xenix) after making a "rlogin"
>>  connection (i.e. the SCO box is the remote machine), using the arrow
>>  keys is a pain.  I know that running "stty min 3 time 10" helps
>>  make the problem go away, but I can't figure out how to get "vi" to
>>  honor the changes.

I believe rlogin eats ESCs so arrow keys (instead of klhj) will not
work.

The telnet command implements a virtual terminal protocol and 
arrow keys will work.

Perhaps this should be a FAQ is probably is already somewhere.

:) :) Of course emacs doesn't have this problem :) :)
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