Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:23:36 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: grog@lemis.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, sue@welearn.com.au, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VT100 (was: PCVT's death) Message-ID: <199806240923.CAA23660@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806240645.BAA01400@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Jun 24, 98 01:45:09 am
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> (1) Don't resize or move the window, or access the menus, unless you > don't expect to be receiving data during the operation. The > temptation is great to resize to full screen during the MOTD, but if > data arrives while you're fiddling with this, then the telnet client > will be put in a bad state. (It looks like a ring queue gets out of > sync, but I could be wrong.) Actually, the events are lost. This is similar to the X phenomenon where you use "XNextEvent", it queues up some events, and you are using your own main loop to call select. There is no data waiting input, but there *are* events that are waiting to be processed. The easiest way to get a "full screen" is to make a shortcut icon, and then select "start maximized" on the "Properties..." panel. > (2) Upon first logging in, type 'export TERM=vt100 ; stty rows 25' or > your shell's equivalent. (On some machines, notably HP/UX systems, > the stty will fail. On these machines, use 'export TERM=vt100 > LINES=25' instead.) You can use the X "resize" command, IFF you set your terminal type to "xterm" in FreeBSD, even though the terminal emulation type you have selected is (nominally) a VT100. Oh yeah: DON'T make it more than 43 lines long. If you do, you will get screen buffer corruption. > If you really want to go all-out, maybe you should use X. > Implementations for both 95 and NT availible. The VNC code apparently works well, both to NT and 95, and *from* them (for displaying NT or Win95 sessions on an X server). They are missing specific code on the Windows NT/95 "server" (not in the X sense, in the telnetd sense) to follow window focus, which would be a big win when going that direction, but X response on the NT/95 boxes doing a remote view of ":1" on a FreeBSD box was more than acceptable. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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