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Subject: Re: improvement of pcvt
In-Reply-To: <199703311909.OAA00481@shandakor.tharsis.com> from George Robbins at "Mar 31, 97 02:09:45 pm"
To: grr@shandakor.tharsis.com (George Robbins)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 05:42:51 +1000 (EST)
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> > Subject: Re: improvement of pcvt
> > From: Tim Pierce <twpierce@mail.bsd.uchicago.edu>
> > 
> > pcvt has the advantage of VT220 emulation, which is important for
> > those of us who connect to remote systems from the console.
> > Copying the pc3 termcap entry to all of the systems that I
> > regularly use is very inconvenient.  Maybe it would be valuable to
> > make the pccons or syscons drivers emulate a VT100, for this
> > reason.
> 
> Or *anything* that's in the nearly universal termcap/termlib files subset
> or generally known.  vt52 or "ansi" would be fine as long as it really
> worked with the termcap entries (and other things like bbs's) out there.
> 
> 						George
> 

Just run screen(1).

Cheers,
Julian.