> had to rebuild and for some reason in single user mode I can not set 
> the term.  Attempting  set term vt100;export term and then vi gets me 
> the same warning:
> 
> Term enviroment variable not set.
> 
> I can't find a solution in my books here.  Can someone offer a few tips.

You probably want :

  TERM=vt100 export TERM

';' optional, assuming bourne shell (single-user is bourne shell).  The csh
equivalent would be :

  setenv TERM vt100

or

  set term vt100

because csh exports $term to the environment as $TERM.

J

PS.  Under bourne shell :

  set TERM vt100

is valid syntax, but does not set the value of $TERM to 'vt100'.

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