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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:03:13 -0500
From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Niall Smart <njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk>
Cc: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@ve7tcp.ampr.org>,
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Subject: Re: PCVT's death
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On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 12:59:32AM +0100, Niall Smart woke me up to tell me:
> On Jun 20,  6:39pm, "Matthew D. Fuller" wrote:
> } Subject: Re: PCVT's death
> > On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 05:10:38PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg woke me up to tell me:
> > 
> > Or when you don't have that sort of access to the system you're
> > telnetting into.  I had that problem with a BSDi system I did some work
> > on; had to run screen just to login and check mail.
> 
> You don't need root access, man termcap.

Yes, but that's not portable across all platforms.  Pretty sure you
couldn't do that with AIX 3.2.4 (ah, not-fond memories...  ;)


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