vi issue with 10.20 PLEASE HELP!

[Dan Maul]

I was given an old HP workstation that has HP-UX 10.20. The problem is I wasn???t given the password for root. I was able to null out the old password and replace it. Now the problem I have is using vi. When I attempt to vi, it pops up a message ???I don???t know what terminal you are using, using open mode???. If I ignore the message and try to edit the file, it jumbles up the format. How do I correct this?

[Umapathy S · Accepted solution]

Dan,
export TERM=hpterm
or
export TERM=vt100.

It will work fine.

HTH,
Umapathy

[Mark Grant]

You need to find what terminal you are using. If it is an xterm session it would be "xterm" or "vt100" and do

export TERM=xterm

Then start vi.

If you only have a vague clue about what terminal you are using look thriough /etc/termcap for possible entries and export the correct term type as mentioned above.

[Bhuvaneswari Selvaraj]

Just include the following in your .profile. that will solve your problem
if [ "$TERM" = "" ]
then
eval ` tset -s -Q -m ':?hp' `
else
eval ` tset -s -Q `
fi

[Dan Maul]

Thanks Guys!!
It's fixed and I'm moving forward, for now.
Thanks again all.