Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 12:37:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: long motd files - screen pause? Message-ID: <Pine.PTX.3.91.960601123643.29367s-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <199606011825.LAA22021@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Sat, 1 Jun 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > If they are xterm, then you can't set vt100 in /etc/ttys for them. > > > > > > If all the vt100's are direct connect, and all the xterms are network, > > > then it'll work. > > > > But remote connections won't work? I wonder what did CSUA do because > > it works for all different terms... > > 1) They decided to limit the choices. You have yet to put any > real limit on what you expect to be connecting to your machine > and getting the motd, or the way it's going to be connecting. > > 2) They fail; you just haven't seen it because you've always used > one of the approaches that happens to work. If you use 24/25 > line terminals, it's likely that the defaults for "more" would > work for you. If you used asn old VT52 12 line terminal, or > a large xterm or MS-Windows Telnet window, it *won't* work > for you period. > > This is why I say that what you want to do should not be done in the login > program. You are trying to use the wrong tool (motd) to solve your > problem. Yep, you're right about the 24/25 line terminals since that's what it looks like... Thanks for the help though! Vince
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