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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
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Subject: Re: serial consoles and keyboard probes
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:53:07 +0100 (MET)
In-Reply-To: <199501190105.BAA02928@isl.cf.ac.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jan 19, 95 01:05:03 am
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As Paul Richards wrote:
| 
| Well, sysinstall hopes all the world's a cons25 :-)
| 
| I suspect it will work ok since it uses ncurses, it just might not look
| very pretty. Someone will have to try it though to be sure.

That's what i would like to point out.  The install stuff now needs to
deal properly with different terminal types.  The current single user
shell doesn't -- it always bites me since most of my machines run pcvt
which is vt100-compatible.

Hmm, sysinstall runs standalone, i.e. it doesn't even invoke a
single-user shell.  Hell, where does it get its TERM variable from?

-- 
cheers, J"org                             work:      --- no longer ---
                                          private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)