Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 15:40:35 -0400 From: sbabkin@dcn.att.com To: vovik@ntu-kpi.kiev.ua Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: getty issue file Message-ID: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B2A@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Vladimir A. Jakovenko [SMTP:vovik@ntu-kpi.kiev.ua] > > On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 03:54:42PM -0400, Babkin, Serge wrote: > > > 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." > Does it change the image of already printed letters after you load new fonts ? Or you can just print additional message from /etc/profile. > Moreover, sometimes I nead also russian "im" message .... :-) > Then it's worse. Did not you trained your users for "login": prompt like Pavlov trained dogs ? :-) It's a useful training anyway and absolutely not difficult :-) > > 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 ... > Then it's worse. A while ago (when hardware terminals were popular in xUSSR) it was popular to re-program the terminal's (and matrix printer's) EPROM. Changing fonts was not that difficult, the keyboard map required a lot more work. If I get access to EPROM reprogramming equipment, I would like very much to change the fonts in my DeskJet printers because HP stopped to supply the font cartridges for them and there is no font cartridge socket in printer at all :-( -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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