From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 18:54:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA11385 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:54:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA11374; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 18:54:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA02500; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:53:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 21:53:45 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: "Dag-Erling C. =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=" cc: Chuck Robey , Satoshi Asami , nate@mt.sri.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, mike@smith.net.au, obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id SAA11380 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 12 Nov 1998, Dag-Erling C. [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote: > Brian Feldman writes: > > Ex is part of nvi/nex, and is in /usr/bin. Do you mean ed? BTW, as I bring > > this up, I'd like to propose moving nvi/nex to /bin. And of course, why > > don't we add setenv("TERM", "cons25") before the sh spawn in /sbin/init? > > It would prevent the following error in a single-user boot: > > # vi > > ex/vi: Error: unknown: No such file or directory > > Well, instead you'll get > > ex/vi: Error: cons25: No such file or directory > > because for $TERM to be meaningful, you need /usr/share/misc/termcap, > and /usr probably isn't mounted yet (assuming you've moved vi to /bin, > which means linking it statically) True... what are feelings on a "tinytermcap" if well-implemented (with libtermcap)? It would be really simple to add to src/lib/libtermcap/pathnames.h /etc/tinytermcap... {"/home/green"}$ l tinytermcap -rw-r--r-- 1 green green 1382 Nov 11 21:51 tinytermcap tinytermcap would have consoles cons25{,w,r,l1}. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no > Cheers, Brian Feldman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message