From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 2 13:30:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C992A37B446 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 13:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA11732; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:30:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:30:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Siegbert Baude Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Does /usr/ports/misc/screen need kernel VT100 support? Message-ID: <20000902153002.A11467@dan.emsphone.com> References: <39B15DAE.BCF27DC@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.8i In-Reply-To: <39B15DAE.BCF27DC@gmx.de>; from "Siegbert Baude" on Sat Sep 2 22:06:06 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 02), Siegbert Baude said: > in the thread about browsers, I read about /usr/ports/misc/screen. > The description states, that this package will emulate a VT100 > terminal. Am I supposed to compile VT100 support in my kernel in > order to use it? Or ist this just software emulation? Would like to > test it, but if it needs new kernel, I will delay this until my next > buildworld. No; you don't need to build a new kernel. screen does the VT100 emulation completely in software. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message