Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 14:31:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, ache@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startslip isn't just broken - it's EVIL! Message-ID: <199510231931.OAA02068@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <521.814475958@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 23, 95 12:19:18 pm
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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! Hmmm, never seen that. Are you using full hardware handshaking? > 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.. Yes, I never built up the ambition to fix it right. I kept patching it but my recent sets of patches never seemed to show up after the ones I submitted for 2.0R... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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