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- From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <BARNETT.92Nov13095738@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 14:57:38 GMT
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu>
- <1992Nov10.094408.21741@prl.dec.com> <362@unbc.edu>
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- In-Reply-To: lyndon@unbc.edu's message of 10 Nov 92 21:22:20 GMT
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- In article <362@unbc.edu> lyndon@unbc.edu (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
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- > I'm not very familiar with Plan 9. How does rc address the problems the
- > original poster detailed?
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- Plan 9 does not support dumb (ASCII) terminals. It assumes the
- intelligence is in the terminal (i.e. a workstation) which handles
- editing locally. Therefore the shell does not have to provide
- mouse-driven command line editing because the terminal does it for the shell.
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