From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 10:52:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B9E37B56E for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA01130; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:51:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200004041751.MAA01130@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: Dumb terminal vendor In-Reply-To: <012b01bf9ddc$6cc0bdc0$0200000a@danco> from "Dan O'Connor" at "Apr 3, 2000 07:18:27 pm" To: dan@mostgraveconcern.com (Dan O'Connor) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:51:55 -0500 (CDT) Cc: abc@firehouse.net (Alan Clegg), bduk@earthlink.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dan O'Connor babbled: > Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 19:18:27 -0700 > >>>As it is, I spend an inordinate amount of time writing in a notebook > >>>and typing it in later when the system is free. > > > >> If you don't mind typing on your laptop, you could always use a null-modem > >> cable and connect your laptop to the FreeBSD machine's serial port. Then log > >> in with terminal software... > > > >Note in this context, "notebook" is not == "laptop". It probably means a > >pad of paper and a pencil with few I/O capabilities beyond "erase". 8-) > > > > Oh. They still make those? I think mine's broken. I can't even find the "erase" button on this thing. It says "Bic" on the side, so could it be that I just have a poorly designed brand? I can get a command line, but the GUI is quite poor. Maybe it's just downrev. -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net jerry@dunham.org (512)335-0674 (H) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message