Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:07:15 +1000 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: Open Systems Networking <opsys@mail.webspan.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <19980622180715.09559@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980621220218.4648F-100000@orion.webspan.net>; from Open Systems Networking on Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 01:21:25AM -0400 References: <19980622113948.26138@welearn.com.au> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980621220218.4648F-100000@orion.webspan.net>
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On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 01:21:25AM -0400, Open Systems Networking wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 04:57:33PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > > > Just to add to the motivation... I've spoken to a few people lately who
> > > > have several Linux boxes and started converting them to FreeBSD, then
> > > > changed their minds. One complaint is that FreeBSD won't talk VT100
> > > > in a way the Linux boxes can understand, and vice versa. It's not so
>
> Im joining this late but when did: set term=vt100 stop working?
> "is that FreeBSD won't talk VT100 in a way Linux boxes can understand, and
> vice versa" woo big shock there Linux doesnt work with FreeBSD in some
> fashion :) Not running FreeBSD because VT100 emu doesnt work with a linux
> box is lunacy.
Even loonies deserve the chance to come into our clutches for a bit
of... err... retraining. Just think, where would FreeBSD be without you
and me? :-)
> set term=vt100 works fine for me on anything I need it for. Except for
> OS's with as usual broken implementations :)
Sure, maybe that's the problem. It's a broken world out there. Write to
me again if you ever actually try it with Linux.
I don't know enough to know what works and why. I can't make anything
except screen work but I'm stupid and lazy :-) A few months ago consensus
seemed to be that Linux was too hard to fix or something. The discussion
was long and boring, the untested suggestions worked in righteous theory
rather than practice, those who had genuine motivation retreated to private
mail to avoid the flack, and it belongs in -questions if revived at all.
The only issue for now is that if PCVT is indeed the solution for companies
changing gradually from Linux to FreeBSD (can't confirm, I gave up before
getting mine to work) then it is needed at least for this reason.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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Regards,
-*Sue*-
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