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To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart)
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Subject: Re: PCVT's death 
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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 17:10:38 -0600
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org>
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>>>>> "Niall" == Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk> writes:

    Niall> Well why not tell them about cons25 via termcap or
    Niall> terminfo?

That's not always practical. (How do I do that when logging into a
VMS system? Or some large chunk of IBM iron that that provides a
virtual 3270 on dialup by implementing a VT100/VT220 state engine
in the port server?)

--lyndon


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