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>, Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-ID: <19980620190313.53271@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <E0ynXXg-0005nr-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>; from Niall Smart on Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 12:59:32AM %2B0100 References: <fullermd@futuresouth.com> <E0ynXXg-0005nr-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk>
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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... ;) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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