From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 10:26:05 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA20145 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:26:05 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA20138 for ; Tue, 9 May 1995 10:26:02 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA05214; Tue, 9 May 95 11:19:05 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505091719.AA05214@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: vt100 To: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao) Date: Tue, 9 May 95 11:19:05 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at May 9, 95 01:30:46 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > And if you are willing to generally lose a line from your display for > > all other uses (since a VT100/VT220 terminal, by definition, has only > > 24 lines). > > Runs just fine with 50 lines here. I can't think of anything I > use day-to-day that insists on 24 lines... LSE. EDT. TPU. VAXWorks. VAX BASIC. Any software with hard coded ideas about what a VT100 is (since a VT100 *by definition* has 24 lines). Like an IRC client on the other end of a serial connection that has no method of inputting your terminal type (I knew that this was probably the case and that a local client was probably not an option when I saw the original poster's insistance on VT100 in combination with IRC). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.