Did you set the terminal type?   For example,
TERM=vt100
export TERM

then try it?  

I know that the error message doesn't sound anything like a terminal type
problem, but that message can result from not setting TERM...

-Dan

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Michael bartosh wrote:

> I dug up an old 1 gig drive yesterday thinking I'd put in a new 
> distribution and use the larger drive for /usr and my eventual 
> netatalk volume, since I'd just gotten netatalk running and had 
> pretty much made a mess of this distribution after about a week of 
> stumbling around
> 
> However, I must've done something wrong, because now when I try to 
> edit /rc.conf I get the error
> 
> ex/vi: Error: unknown: No such file or directory
> 
> Any way I can fix this?
> 
> -mab
> 
> 
> 
> >From the iMac of...
> 
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