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From: _kunglao AT prairienet DOT org (Gilligan)
Subject: Re: Perl & GNU-Win32
19 Jul 1997 08:51:13 -0700 :
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Michael Hirmke wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> [...]
> > This page also has gnuwin32 binaries of less and vim.
> 
> The vi binary I got from your page does not work correctly on my
> Windows
> NT 4 system.
> When called from a bash prompt, it starts up correctly, but scrolling
> wih the cursor down key is messed up, when I reach the last line of
> the
> screen. If I set lines=26 instead of 25 this works ok, but then I get
> a
> problem with the : commands.
> If I start that vi from a native Windows NT application it hangs
> completely 8-/
> 
> Are there any suggestions what to do against this problem ?

I suspect it's some sort of problem with the term settings.  A
workaround is to pick up sergey's latest .dll package with rxvt. 
Running it (and other programs with similar display problems) has worked
perfectly for me.


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