The problem is an incorrect setting of the "$TERM" environment variable.
Any program trying to do "more fancy" things on a terminal (vi, for instance, has to write to random positions on the screen to update it, not only streams of output like "ls") first evaluates this variable, then looks into the "termcap" database. In this database there are escape sequences for every capability (hence the name) and the program will use these. One such capability could be to position the cursor, another to switch to reverse video, another to switch back, asf. This is how vi (and programs like it: less, view, ...) handle different terminals types without having to take care of these themselves: the termcap database.
So far the theory. ;-))
The Windows telnet is notorious for setting the terminal type to "ansi" while in fact emulating a vt100 terminal. Therefore: issue the line
and everything should be fine. If you have similar troubles again use
I have to look through logfiles where lines are several hundred characters long and if I open the log in Vi it automatically word wraps the line. In Vim you can use the -nowrap option to stop this, but how can you do this in Vi?
I ask because I don't want to see the whole line, just the first few... (8 Replies)
Hello all I am a unix newbie....
I have a sun netra t1 and it is freaking out
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Hi,
I'm writing scripts in perl and shell and want to add the oprion of
scrolling cursor on the screen when there is no output to the screen for long time. I saw it in some script but I don't have the source code.
Are anyone know how can I perform this ?
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hi,
can anyone tell me how to enable arrow keys to scroll thru the commands on command prompt.
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Using head and tail like that is terribly inefficient. I decided to try a rewrite. Sheesh...I spent all morning on this....
Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh
#
# scroller --- display text, but sleep every... (0 Replies)
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I have the following script and would like to add page up and down functionality to be able to stroll through the list.
Is this possible?
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When I enter Solaris mail command, I get many emails on the screen on scrolling. How can I get it in one by one. BTW, if I delete the long list of emails by d command at the end, rest of the emails comes in one after other :rolleyes:
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
ul
UL(1) BSD General Commands Manual UL(1)NAME
ul -- do underlining
SYNOPSIS
ul [-i] [-t terminal] [name ...]
DESCRIPTION
ul reads the named files (or standard input if none are given) and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence which indicates
underlining for the terminal in use, as specified by the environment variable TERM. The file /usr/share/misc/terminfo is read to determine
the appropriate sequences for underlining. If the terminal is incapable of underlining, but is capable of a standout mode then that is used
instead. If the terminal can overstrike, or handles underlining automatically, ul degenerates to cat(1). If the terminal cannot underline,
underlining is ignored.
The following options are available:
-i Underlining is indicated by a separate line containing appropriate dashes `-'; this is useful when you want to look at the underlin-
ing which is present in an nroff(1) output stream on a crt-terminal.
-t terminal
Overrides the terminal type specified in the environment with terminal.
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variable is used:
TERM The TERM variable is used to relate a tty device with its device capability description (see termcap(5)). TERM is set at login time,
either by the default terminal type specified in /etc/ttys or as set during the login process by the user in their login file (see for
example csh(1)'s setenv).
SEE ALSO colcrt(1), man(1), nroff(1)HISTORY
The ul command appeared in 3.0BSD.
BUGS nroff(1) usually outputs a series of backspaces and underlines intermixed with the text to indicate underlining. No attempt is made to opti-
mize the backward motion.
BSD September 29, 2009 BSD