edit files in single-user-mode, the output is all messed up

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:51:48PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote:
>
>   
>> On 11/05/07, Gabriel Rossetti <mailing_lists at evotex.ch> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have never been able to figure out how to do this, and I usually end
>>> up copying the file to be edited to a floppy  et be able to edit it from
>>> another machine, but there has to ba a way to do it! Everytime I go into
>>> single-user-mode and I have to edit a file, the output to stdout is
>>> messed up (looks like there are no \n). I tried several editors (vi, ee,
>>> edit (ee I think),  and I get the same thing, useless to say that it's
>>> impossible to edit the files. The only editor that works, is vim, but
>>> it's not always installed. Does anyone know why this happens? And does
>>> anyone know how to fix it?
>>>       
>
> The two main problems are making sure the editors are available
> and making sure you have a terminal type that will work.
>
> Do the following:
>   fsck -p
>   mount -u /
>   mount -a
>   swapon -a
>
> To make sure files are available.
>
> Then, for termtype, if you are using tcsh which is most common on FreeBSD do
>   set term=vt100
>
> or if in sh do as Christian Walther indicated
>
> ////jerry
>
>
>   
Ok, thanks Jerry!
>> You could try to set a decent TERM-variable, such as
>>
>> TERM=vt100
>> export TERM
>>
>> HTH
>> Christian
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