From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 12 02:56:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA20455 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id CAA20438 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 02:56:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA14043 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:56:27 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id LAA02201; Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:29:47 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:29:46 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A cool xterm? References: <199701102211.RAA13433@chai.plexuscom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Jan 12, 1997 00:10:15 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk (Sorry, this didn't occur to me before:) > On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > > Also, there should be a way to dump lines to a file (on command) as > > well as increase/decrease line buffer size. The options to dump something from xterm into files have been deliberately removed from the X11R6 xterm since they proved to be a security nightmare for xterms running setuid. Once our new all-singing all-dancing utmp replacement is ready, it for sure does no longer require root permissions, then we can revert this. :) I also loved the feature to write a transaction log file from xterm. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)