vi thinks screen is very short

[Perry Hutchison]

One of our diskless 3/50's here did something very strange, and I wonder
if anyone can explain it.  Whenever the user started vi in any of his
Suntools windows, it would only use the bottom few lines of the screen.
Logging out and back in did not help, but after rebooting the node
everything was normal.  This is with SunOS 3.5.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on here?  If it happens again, is
there a less severe cure than rebooting?

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