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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 15:24:52 +0100
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de>
To: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>,
        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_C=2E_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>,
        nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au,
        obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-)
References: <xzp7lx1ve2w.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112143390.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Wed, Nov 11, 1998 at 09:53:45PM -0500, Brian Feldman wrote:
> On 12 Nov 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
> 
> > Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> writes:
> > > Ex is part of nvi/nex, and is in /usr/bin. Do you mean ed? BTW, as I bring
> > > this up, I'd like to propose moving nvi/nex to /bin. And of course, why
> > > don't we add setenv("TERM", "cons25") before the sh spawn in /sbin/init?
> > > It would prevent the following error in a single-user boot:
> > > # vi
> > > ex/vi: Error: unknown: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Well, instead you'll get
> > 
> > ex/vi: Error: cons25: No such file or directory
> > 
> > because for $TERM to be meaningful, you need /usr/share/misc/termcap,
> > and /usr probably isn't mounted yet (assuming you've moved vi to /bin,
> > which means linking it statically)
> 
> True... what are feelings on a "tinytermcap" if well-implemented (with
> libtermcap)? It would be really simple to add to
> src/lib/libtermcap/pathnames.h /etc/tinytermcap...
> 
> {"/home/green"}$ l tinytermcap 
> -rw-r--r--  1 green  green  1382 Nov 11 21:51 tinytermcap
> tinytermcap would have consoles cons25{,w,r,l1}.
Not very helpfull when using a seriel console
In my case I'm using an esprit type terminal and sometimes vt100 ...

> 
> > 
> > DES
> > -- 
> > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
> > 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian Feldman
> 
> 
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