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Date:      Wed, 22 Jan 2003 05:41:59 +0100 (CET)
From:      hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis)
To:        "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons )
Message-ID:  <20030122044159.79AC45499@bert.int.kts.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030122010246.52789.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com>

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=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?= wrote:

> I don't think we should go directly to (3). FWIW, the
> last time I tried running pcvt I got really scared by
> the incompatibilities: X didn't run, screensavers
> would block the console and even pine wasn't
> functional either.

Please don't blame pcvt in case you are not able to set it up properly.

X runs fine and without any problems (even in cases when syscons has
one of its quarterly hickups ..), nothing "blocks" the console and
pine runs fine - as does any other program runing on a properly
setup pcvt, termcap and TERM variable.

hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis        Hamburg, Europe        hm@kts.org        www.kts.org
      There is a difference between an open mind and a hole in the head.

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