From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 20 19:05:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA12708 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:05:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (root@mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA12691 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:05:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-61.camalott.com [208.229.74.61] (may be forged)) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13447; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:05:24 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21588; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:05:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:05:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806210205.VAA21588@detlev.UUCP> To: fullermd@futuresouth.com CC: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <19980620190313.53271@futuresouth.com> (fullermd@futuresouth.com) Subject: Re: PCVT's death From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: <19980620190313.53271@futuresouth.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>> Or when you don't have that sort of access to the system you're >>> telnetting into. I had that problem with a BSDi system I did some work >>> on; had to run screen just to login and check mail. >> You don't need root access, man termcap. > Yes, but that's not portable across all platforms. Pretty sure you > couldn't do that with AIX 3.2.4 (ah, not-fond memories... ;) Hmmm... I know that at least as of Net/2, and possibly earlier, you could use ~/.termcap; I also remember going through some of that for my own work on an AIX 3.2 system, although I don't know the specifics. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message