Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 11:29:46 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A cool xterm? Message-ID: <Mutt.19970112112946.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970112000933.11957D-100000@echonyc.com>; from Snob Art Genre on Jan 12, 1997 00:10:15 -0500 References: <199701102211.RAA13433@chai.plexuscom.com> <Pine.SOL.3.91.970112000933.11957D-100000@echonyc.com>
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(Sorry, this didn't occur to me before:) > On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > > Also, there should be a way to dump lines to a file (on command) as > > well as increase/decrease line buffer size. The options to dump something from xterm into files have been deliberately removed from the X11R6 xterm since they proved to be a security nightmare for xterms running setuid. Once our new all-singing all-dancing utmp replacement is ready, it for sure does no longer require root permissions, then we can revert this. :) I also loved the feature to write a transaction log file from xterm. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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