In article <1993Jun2.211737.3809@iitmax.iit.edu> thssrkr@iitmax.iit.edu (Raghunath K. Rao) writes:
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>Well, my SLS1.02 is great. But when people telnet from a VT100
>(or VT100 emulating PC) vi screws up big time! It highlights
>all the text and screws up the display on exitting (have
>to 'reset' to get it OK). /etc/termcap does say that VT100

Set your TERM environment variable to vt100 and put it in your
 .profile file, thus:

 TERM=vt100; export TERM

If you check, I bet that your TERM variable is now set to "console".
I had the same problem, now solved as suggested above.

Happy linuxing!

--Sidney Thomas
  (sthomas@sthomas.worldbank.org)