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From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Problem with vi editor in FreeBSD 2.01
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Kristofer Pettersson <thek@erika.fdata.se> wrote:
>Hmm, I've also had this problem running vt100 agains a SUN solaris 2.3 machine. 
>

I have also run into this with a wide range of terminal emulator/telnet
combinations (which previously worked with TERM=vt100 on Sun, MIPS etc.)
However, on closer inspection all of these terminals actually claimed
to be emulating VT102 rather than VT100, and indeed changing to
TERM=vt102 on the FreeBSD machine fixed the problem!

I had previously thought that vt100 was a sub-set of vt102 - I have yet to determine whether I thought wrong or if the vt100 termcap is
wrong in FreeBSD.