From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 23 07:33:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23893 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from echonyc.com (echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23858; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:33:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from benedict@echonyc.com) Received: from localhost (benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA01543; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:33:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 10:33:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre Reply-To: ben@rosengart.com To: Søren Schmidt cc: Tim Vanderhoek , hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death In-Reply-To: <199806222117.XAA00375@sos.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Tim Vanderhoek who wrote: > > #2) No one has _seriously_ suggested removing PCVT so long as it > > works and fulfills a unique purpose, at least not in this thread > > (which I have read in its entirety). > > Exactly, I dont know where all this hysteria came from... It came from confusion between "dead" as in "dead in the water" and "dead" as in "ready to be carted off and buried". You apparently meant the former, and some people thought you meant the latter. No mystery here. > I said that pcvt is dying because of lack of development and because the > author has abandoned it. Those points still holds IMO. End of discussion. Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message