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Re: Windows 2000: "WARNING: terminal is not fully functional" and pro blems with vi


On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 09:59:04AM -0400, Schmiederer, John (CRD) wrote:
> 	As of a couple days ago, my cygwin terminal has been acting up. 
> Whenever I use the 'less' command I get the warning that my terminal is
> not fully functional.  When I use vi, the cursor never moves from the top
> left corner.  I can type the command to go to line five and then insert or
> delete characters, but I can't see my self doing it.  Also, the colors for
> vi variables and comments and everything else changed.

What do you get from the output of

echo $TERM

?

If it doesn't come back with

cygwin

try

export TERM=cygwin

and then see how you get on.

-- 
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