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Making Pico work on your iPhone
Over on #iphone-shell, user Doggkruse was wondering how to get pico to work on his iPhone. Problem was that the iPhone had no terminal definitions on-board. So every time he ran pico, he got "Unknown termtype vt100" errors. For those of you curious how to fix this problem, here's the solution. On your iPhone, create the folder /usr/share/terminfo/76 and copy /usr/share/terminfo/76/vt100 from your Mac over to the iPhone. Once there, set your term environment variable to vt100. In csh, this is set term=vt100. It varies, obviously, by shell. Once this is done, you should be able to use pico in normal full-screen mode. For those of you full-screen addicts, there's now vim and pico. For the rest of us, there's ed--the editor of kings. User DrunkDwarf was nice enough to put up a copy of vt100 for Windows users here. Thanks DrunkDwarf!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Neil Christie said 8:09AM on 7-26-2007
What the heck is #iphone-shell?
Is it an IRC channel? If so, why not list the server it's on too so people can join?
Gee, for a tech site you sure don't know your stuff sometimes!
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Justin said 10:13AM on 7-26-2007
Neil: it's been listed numerous times. For a critic you don't pay very good attention. :P
irc.osx86.hu
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Luigi193 said 10:20AM on 7-26-2007
Wow...Pico is a mountain in VT.
vt100
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rob said 11:58AM on 7-26-2007
*Yawn*
Hit me up if you get vi working.
pico is for n0000000000000bz.
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sven said 12:14PM on 7-26-2007
The Unofficial Erica's iPhone Terminal Blog
(TUEITB)
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dalasv said 3:33PM on 7-26-2007
Is there a post somewhere that tells you how to get terminal working on the iPhone? I'd like to do some ssh.
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Jayson said 3:25AM on 7-28-2007
[QUOTE]*Yawn*
Hit me up if you get vi working.
pico is for n0000000000000bz.[/QUOTE]
vi is working with the binutils from http://iphone.natetrue.com/iphone-binkit-0.04.tar.gz
Although, the l33t hax0r you are, you probably already knew that.
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