xterm-color: Unknown terminal type I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'. [Using open mode]

When trying to use VI on a remote machine in my case Solaris from Mac,I got the following error  xterm-color:

Unknown terminal type I don't know what kind of terminal you
are on  - all I have is 'xterm-color'. [Using open mode]

1 2	Unknown terminal type I don't know what kind of terminal you are on - all I have is 'xterm-color'. [Using open mode]

Fix
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Simple change the ”declare terminal as” to vt100
Set the TERM environment variable on the remote machine to “vt100″ by using the following command

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export TERM='vt100'

1	export TERM='vt100'

2 Comments → Using VI Over SSH From Mac OS to Remote Solaris Machine Terminal Error

Worked for me, thank you.

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Dwayne V Campbell September 8, 2012 at 3:14 pm

Glad it worked for you. Thanks for browsing. I need to update my blog!

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