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- From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
- Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.165703.11502@mits.mdata.fi>
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- References: <1992Sep14.164729.28907@mits.mdata.fi> <1992Sep14.174931.2373@colorado.edu> <TYTSO.92Sep14231653@SOS.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:57:03 GMT
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- In article <TYTSO.92Sep14231653@SOS.mit.edu> tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o) writes:
- >Speaking of which, why do you want to write your own terminal program?
- >What's wrong with kermit that you want to re-invent your own wheel?
- >
- > - Ted
-
- I don't like kermit, I'd like something like Telix for Linux. I'd
- be happy to try and write one, but using the termcap/curses interface
- doesn't feel so good, if there is another way. Maybe it wouldn't
- even be that slow in practice, but theoretically I just don't like
- the idea of first decoding the incoming VT100 codes, storing the
- data in a temporary buffer, and then updating that buffer to the
- console screen by means of some more VT100 codes....
-
- I know there is pcomm, but after trying it I decided even kermit
- or XComm was better. (I compiled pcomm myself though, so maybe I
- broke something in it that made it behave strangely. Don't
- remember what happened exactly anymore.)
-
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