Using Vi through a Serial Console

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Sat Jan 17 16:50:00 PST 2004


On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 06:52:31PM -0500, Mario Antonio wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> When I make a serial connection to a FreeBSD server that has its serial port
> configured as a console, how can I make the "vi" editor work?

What doesn't work about it?

And you've already set your TERM environment variable to appropriate
value for whatever is on the other end of the serial cable?

-T


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