Re: Replace /rescue/vi with mined(1) from DragonFlyBSD

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 06:06:53PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:02:22PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> > 
> > Well, this will help me, but how exactly does it help our
> > user base.  Currently, /rescue/vi is useless if a termcap
> > file is not available (as in /usr is hosed).
> 
> This topic comes up about every 3 months.  ncurses can be compiled to have
> embedded terminal descriptions.  That's one choice.  Another is to have a
> small termcap file.  That's another choice.  Of course another choice is
> to change the editor (though stating that it has support for cons25 and
> xterm sounds suspicious, since they do differ).
> 

I've already stated that I'm aware of the PR that has
a minimalist termcap, which needs to be installed somewhere
that /rescue/vi can find it.

-r-xr-xr-x  129 root  wheel  3669272 Jun 17 15:09 /rescue/ee*
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root  wheel  3564216 Jun 17 14:50 /rescue/mined*
-r-xr-xr-x    2 root  wheel  3940176 Jun 16 15:56 /rescue/vi*

This is an editor meant for recovering a system.  It's not
a full blown kitchen sink.  It can be used in an xterm and
it can be used from the console.

-- 
Steve