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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