Big Woes, Little VI

[Harvey A. Iwamoto]

On my SPARCstation 1+, vi behaves strangely after using Ckermit to talk to
a remote Unix system via the Serial B port.  Using vt100, vt102 or the
special sun termcap that was set up still produces the problems after
logging out and returning to the Sun environment.

The worst vi problem occurs while using j to move down the file.  At some
point part of the text is moved to the top of the screen, there is about
10 blank lines, and then sometimes the next line is at the bottom of the
screen or somewhere near the bottom.  A ^L will verify that the cursor is
moving through the file correctly.

Is there some environment variable that is getting set to 24 lines?
Looking at eeprom the screensize still indicates 34 lines.

Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!!!
Harvey Iwamoto
iwamoto at nosc.mil