Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 19:41:17 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@mailhost.coppe.ufrj.br> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA comments Message-ID: <199701062141.TAA08163@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970106211628.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jan 6, 97 09:16:28 pm"
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#define quoting(J Wunsch) // As sos@freebsd.org wrote: // // > > I think the ScrollLock feature used to have problems all the time, in // > > particular if output data arrived while one was scrolling back. // > // > Erhm, could you be more specific about this one ?? I know I use it // > this way often and it has newer failed on me (yet). // // Hit ScrollLock immediately after the interrupts got enabled, i.e. // very early in /etc/rc. Browse a little back and forth through the // kernel messages, hit ScrollLock again and -- you don't see any // messages from /etc/rc. It takes you another return or so to finally // see them. Hey... This behaviour happens in 2.1.x also... I never thought of it as a bug, just a "feature". :) Instead of hitting enter, hit shift, and nothing bad happens. // // But maybe that's also another incarnation of the ``buggy pty'' // behaviour only. The latter can be best observed in the Emergency // Holographic Shell of a 2.2-ALPHA or -BETA installation floppy. It's // simply unusable if you try entering anything while the installation is // in progress. Funny, no response. If you switch back to VTY2, you // won't get back to VTY4 (though the EHS is still running there), the // system beeps only. Humm... I usually use the EHS to telnet to my mail system and read some mail while waiting for install to complete. Curiously, I didn't try it while my last installation of 2.2 BETA. Interestingly enough, there's no userland command to switch vtys, while a sigle ioctl is necessary. Maybe next versions of vidcontrol should include it. What do you think ? It could be useful to start some kind of "log screen" in a shell daemon. // Now, try again, and start another /bin/sh or /bin/csh on top of the // EHS itself -- everything will work fine. // // (If you ask me: the ``beep if there's nothing open on that VTY'' // misfeature is something i already hated in Interactive Unix. I never // believed one would implement such a misfeature volunteerely. But i // know, you don't ask me. :) // // -- // cheers, J"org // // joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE // Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) // Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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