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- From: cja@chmist.zso.dec.com (Carl J. Appellof)
- Subject: Re: Ok Ultrix's console is brain dead..anyone rewritten it?
- In-Reply-To: rfrost@degas.jrc.flinders.edu.au's message of 28 Aug 92 13:49:00 GMT
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- References: <RFROST.92Aug28231900@bruegel.jrc.flinders.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:41:48 GMT
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- In article <RFROST.92Aug28231900@bruegel.jrc.flinders.edu.au> rfrost@degas.jrc.flinders.edu.au (Richard Frost) writes:
-
- > I posted before about the console mode on DecStations..later finding out it
- > does not support screen oriented editors etc.. Ok Ok.. so
- > I can't get a Termcap entry to fix it.. anyone looked at rewriting
- > the console device.. ?
-
- I believe the DEC OSF/1 version of the console driver supports
- enough ANSI screen positioning commands so that vi works ok.
- (The result of an OSF engineer who couldn't live without vi.)
- I haven't tried emacs, though :-)
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