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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: changing to another virtual console...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.151302.18811@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 15:13:02 GMT
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- Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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- In article <1992Jul22.045943.925@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca>, dje@sspiff.ampr.ab.ca (Doug Evans) writes:
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- | The SVR4/386 systems and SCO Xenix provide ioctl's to do this.
- | I think Linux should just follow suit and use those. Why add extra
- | pain to people porting applications that use the ones already in existence?
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- The world is breaking down to BSD and V.4, and BSD is going away...
- please use the SVR4 standard rather than xenix, if they differ. I agree
- that reinventing the wheel is not the way to go.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
- It never ceases to amaze me that otherwise rational people, able to
- understand calculus, compound interest, and the income tax form, can
- continue to believe that poker is a game of chance.
-