Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:53:35 -0500 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getty(8) Message-ID: <199508130053.TAA10649@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199508030704.JAA13843@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <199508030704.JAA13843@uriah.heep.sax.de>, J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote: >What about a rewrite? How to add the missing functionality? I'd >personally prefer to have something using the same keywords as stty(1) >instead of this unmemorizable two-letter abbreviations (perhaps with >an option to getty to recognize the old format as well as a more >rationale new one). Opinion: You could do worse than to simply clone the System V format. Yes, it's System V... but it is something that people are familiar with. That's got to be worth something...
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