From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 27 22: 4:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCA8137B4D7 for ; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAS64Sh51161; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:04:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: Terry Lambert Cc: mckusick@mckusick.com (Kirk McKusick), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rps@merlin.mat.uc.pt Subject: Re: Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro: erase2 patch (was: 4.2-RELEASE ISO image for x86 updated.) In-Reply-To: Message from Terry Lambert of "Tue, 28 Nov 2000 04:56:14 GMT." <200011280456.VAA25380@usr08.primenet.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 22:04:27 -0800 Message-ID: <51159.975391467@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > All that said, I think that terminals are probably only going > to become less and less common, as time goes on, and that it > would be a lot of effortspent for naught to get readline or > similar functionality into FreeBSD's drivers. This doesn't just apply to terminals, this applies to anyone trying to use a PTY through a remote session using anything from a Sun keyboard to a Microsoft Unnatural keyboard. > Actually, this would probably be a perfect application for a > Streams module... OK, I'm sorry, but we have to kill you now. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message