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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Decent term program for NetBSD 0.9?
Date: 25 Jun 94 22:54:23 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Keywords: terminal,program,netbsd
In <2uglrp$93v@nyx10.cs.du.edu> ehinson@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Eric L. Hinson) writes:
>I am just getting started with NetBSD, and would like to have a decent
>terminal program to use under it. (decent meaning scrollback (mainly),
>but other stuff like transfer protocals and such would be helpful).
My take on this is that your "windowing program" should be providing the
scrollback. What I mean by this is, I use kermit in an xterm
normally, and my xterm has the scrollback. But if I was connected via
a tty (or text console), I would definitely be using the screen
program to provide multiple shells, and screen does scrollback with
copy/paste *very* nicely. So, either way I have scrollback and I
don't have to worry about the term program doing it.
Personally, I think kermit does a fine job for pretty much anything I
would want to do. Coupled with xterm/screen it is more than adequate
for my use.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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