Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 22:02:59 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, ugen@latte.worldbank.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: dset & userconfig Message-ID: <199509120502.WAA12462@precipice.shockwave.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Sep 1995 18:10:05 PDT." <382.810868205@time.cdrom.com>
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: dset & userconfig > >It has been tested on what I have to hand; to wit, one FreeBSD machine. > >I don't have an asr33 anymore; and my LA120 is making some small fish > >very happy. _minimal_ ANSI is required/ > > OK, I have a bug report to file. > > BUG: new userconfig() assumes a minimal ANSI terminal. > > FIX: make it work on a glass tty or ASR-33. Not all the world is ANSI!!! >>:- This was hardly unknown at the start, and I was the one who told Michael to feel free in assuming ANSI as a minimum price of entry. However, it was perhaps the wrong decision to make this interface the *only* one and I am talking now with Michael about making the entire visual interface a command available from the wretched, inferior, ugly CLI interface we have now. I may even go a few steps towards improving that CLI, like adding wildcarding to `disable' and other such creature comforts. Would that make you happ(y|ier)? See the last message I just sent out. I think having the "ugly" userconfig as an #ifdef'ed thing, and a user mode program to operate a sysctl interface is where we want to be. Paul
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