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Date:      Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:22:12 +0300
From:      "Vladimir A. Jakovenko" <vovik@ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
To:        "Babkin, Serge" <sbabkin@dcn.att.com>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getty issue file
Message-ID:  <19980616222212.60788@NTU-KPI.Kiev.UA>
In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B29@dcn71.dcn.att.com>; from Babkin, Serge on Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 03:54:42PM -0400
References:  <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B29@dcn71.dcn.att.com>

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On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 03:54:42PM -0400, Babkin, Serge wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Vladimir A. Jakovenko [SMTP:vovik@ntu-kpi.kiev.ua]
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:57:36PM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 
> > Damn ... In my situation making a terminal to speak russian in getty
> > is a good 
> > idea because I need russian motd banner message for librarians :-)
> > 
> Huh ? Is not /etc/motd printed from /etc/profile ? You can put tset in
> /etc/profile
> before printing motd.

motd(5) say:

"The file /etc/motd is normally displayed by login(1) after a user has
logged in but before the shell is run."

Moreover, sometimes I nead also russian "im" message .... :-)

> 
> > > 
> > > I prefer the tset method (for the obvious reasons).
> > 
> > Terry, do you know any VT 240/420 terminals feature likes 'keymap' in
> > the freebsd
> > console code? With loadable fonts I can display russian, but sometimes
> > I also 
> > need typing in russian, and at present I have only one solution -- run
> > screen
> > from ports and use the screen's feature 'bindkey'.
> > 
> Oh, well, I remember SCO `mapchan' :-)  If you implement this thing in
> the
> line discipline 0, I guess, it would be useful. :-) 

Vladimir Barmin has already implemented similar things in his "ttymap" patch,
but this patch has never been commited :-(

Personaly I prefer the screen 'bindkey' hack, because it's more system 
independed. 

> 
> By the way, why do you use these terminals ? Using old PCs is cheaper
> and better,
> and allows to use network connection over Ethernet which is yet cheaper
> and better.

Serge, we have a lot of DEC terminals (native DEC and some xUSSR clones), 
and most of them are very good for theirs job :-) For example DEC VT420
supports soft scrool, screen-refresh rate at 70Hz, line speed up to 38.4K, etc ...
 
> 
> -Sergey Babkin

-- 
Regards,
Vladimir.

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