[H-GEN] [Debian 2] help again!

[David Wood]

Daehenoc wrote:
> Hi everybody - I was wondering why, when I telnet in to debian from a NT
> or 95 machine, that vi doesn't work properly. When you hit dd to delete a
> line, vi decides to roar off and delete the first line in the file!! the
> telnet session is set to VT100 emulation and the login that i'm using has
> TERM=vt100 on login.

Microsoft Telnet sucks.

Never try to use Microsoft Telnet to vi files!

If you want a decent MS telnet client, try QVTnet - I don't know the URL
but you can do a Net search.  The file name is called term32v415e.zip
and it is available from www.download.com.

Cheers,
Dave
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