From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 20 13:26:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22945 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net ([204.191.205.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA22940 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by kevin.sunshine.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02568 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:19:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: kevin.sunshine.net: cagey owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 13:19:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Eliuk X-Sender: cagey@kevin.sunshine.net Reply-To: Kevin Eliuk To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Terminal Types - Why? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Don't worry about being a termcap expert! I think the only person > who would claim to be an expert is the goof who invented the idea of > 50 zillion different terminal types to begin with!!! =) Sheesh... > Couldn't we all just agree on one! " VT-100 FOR EVERYONE!!! " (Ahh, > but I guess I'm a dreamer!) > Hahaha I've R'edTFM, (except the ones I am going to be told I didn't) but I haven't come up with an answer. Is vt100, etc. a terminal option or settings for different terminal types? My equip. is a VGMonochrome with a oti-037 256k video card. Of course I am using cons25 and am not using X-Anything. -- =| Regards, =| FreeBSD ==> http://www.FreeBSD.org =| Kevin G. Eliuk =| "Free at last, free at last, ..."