Try: 

export EDITOR=vi 
stty rows 24
 
That should fix it.  You can add this to your ".bash_profile" so it
will take effect whenever you log in.

--Dan

Jim Westveer wrote:
> 
> OK,  I am a dummy, wiht that despensed with....
> 
> I just put up debian 1.3.1, on a host that I had been running slackware.
> 
> All is fine, except when I telnet to that host and try to use vi, my
> telnet client (windowz95) seems to have formating problems (not evident with 
> the slakware installation)
> 
> Soooo....I try TERM=vt100;export TERM;tput intit    ...etc..  to no
> avail.
> 
> Has anyone run into this problem when using Windowz95 telnet ??
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
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