Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:05:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: fullermd@futuresouth.com Cc: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk, lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org, pechter@shell.monmouth.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <199806210205.VAA21588@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <19980620190313.53271@futuresouth.com> (fullermd@futuresouth.com) References: <fullermd@futuresouth.com> <E0ynXXg-0005nr-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk> <19980620190313.53271@futuresouth.com>
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>>> 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
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