From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 22 01:08:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA14512 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 01:08:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA14433 for ; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 01:07:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA06137; Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:07:18 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980622180715.09559@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:07:15 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Open Systems Networking Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Bill/Carolyn Pechter , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death References: <19980622113948.26138@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: ; from Open Systems Networking on Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 01:21:25AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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*- -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message