RE: opening file mess

Your terminal type on the system is not correct.   

The solution is probably to identify your term type to the system, as
follows:

$ TERM=vt100
$ export TERM
$ vi file.name



-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces@conserver.com [mailto:users-bounces@conserver.com]
On Behalf Of James.Q.L
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 12:11 PM
To: users@conserver.com
Subject: opening file mess

hello,

when i open up a file using vi/emacs, the file content got mixed up with
previous output on the
screen and makes it totally unreadable. what did i miss?

thanks,

Qiang