Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 12:19:18 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: ache@freebsd.org Subject: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL! Message-ID: <521.814475958@time.cdrom.com>
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I've seen some bogus software in my day, but this one really tears it.. Not only does it have absolutely no concept of setting the VJ compression flags, but it has no provisions for multiple setup strings! Freefall doesn't deal with my TA correctly and whenever I connect I don't get a login banner - I have to hit return first (this is an oft-reported bit of FreeBSD braindamage - any plans to fix it someday?). Unfortunately, startslip is too stupid to cope with the idea of actually sending a return, much less a user defined string, if it doesn't get the prompt it's expecting. It just waits around forever. Bleah! Then there's the little cuteness of having changed the flags completely and utterly between 2.1 and current - any explanation for that decision? I've added VJ compression support to sliplogin, but these other problems I've been having with it in the wake of making those changes (I can't even *test* them because the friggin' thing won't log in!!) make me think that startslip doesn't need to be improved, it needs to be re-written from scratch and I may just do that right now.. Jordan
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