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- From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
- Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly?
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- References: <1992Sep15.165703.11502@mits.mdata.fi>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.222603.15520@unislc.uucp>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:26:03 GMT
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- Kenneth Falck (kennu@mits.mdata.fi) wrote:
-
- : 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?
-
- : 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.)
-
- Has anyone ported ECU? I hear it's pretty nice - if no one else ports it,
- maybe I will... :)
- --
- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@apple.com 801/538-0177
- "This is the final task I will ever give you, and it goes on forever. Act
- happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love,
- and do what you will." -- Dan Millman, "Way Of The Peaceful Warrior"
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