Editing on the serial console

[Karl Denninger]

On 3/6/2019 21:54, bob prohaska wrote:
> Editing files in single-user mode on the serial console 
> is non-trivial. Both vi and ee have problems displaying 
> the file, ed doesn't really try so it works but isn't
> much fun. Is there a better option?  When the machine 
> boots single-user it reports "can't read /etc/termcap", 
> is something misconfigured?
>
> I'm dealing with Raspberry Pi, but am not sure if that's
> the source of the difficulty.
>
> Thanks for reading,
>
> bob prohaska
I haven't had serious trouble doing so using Putty as my serial
terminal....
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Karl Denninger
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