Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:53:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?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? :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112143390.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <xzp7lx1ve2w.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>
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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}.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no
>
Cheers,
Brian Feldman
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