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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:22:46 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: COMPAT_43 (Was:...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000803121258.20486H-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0008022257320.18408-100000@mx.webgiro.com>

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On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote:
> 
> > > > I'm sure our friends in the embedded systems world would say yes. :)
> > > For well-known set of applications you may want also to remove COMPAT_43.
> > 
> > Which applications would this be?
> > 
> > I've not found any description of this particular option anywhere, save
> > for "don't remove it".
> 
> I can't tell you exactl right now - I'm on vacation now, and I have only
> my Nokia with me.. :) IIRC it has something to do with different tty
> fields and disciplines - but you need to look into /sys/kern for details.
> 

COMAT_43 used to be required to use xterm - maybe that's no longer so,
haven't tried. 

It affects other things beyond ttys, though.

> Andrzej Bialecki
> 
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