Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:43:00 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jack@diamond.xtalwind.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: term probs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971012003514.6322A-100000@zeus.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <19971012133557.09865@lemis.com>
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > > What happens is that Linux doesn't recognize cons25 and rather than > > say so and ask for a TERM type (a la BSDI) it just refuses the > > connection. It will do that with any TERM that isn't defined in its > > termcap. > > Which RFC allows that? <shrug> Probably the one that Bill `I'll write my own standards, thank you.' Gates follows, religiously. > > Not very sociable, IMO. :) > > A bug IMO. After the year of hell I went through the month we had Linux on a box here I'm certainly not going to worry about it. Not a single tear was shed in our NOC the day I put a FreeBSD boot floppy into that box and hit the reset button. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@diamond.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include <std_disclaimers.h> for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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