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From: husemann@camelot.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Dirk Husemann)
Subject: Re: virtual tty's for 386bsd ?
References: <1992Aug24.171427.11223@bigcomm.gun.de> <colin.714801124@marsh> <NICKEL.92Aug26205231@desaster.cs.tu-berlin.de>
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nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen) writes:
>Since you are in Germany, the best place for getting iScreen should be
>its "home" server, ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de. It requires some
>searching though, the directory structure on this server is like they
>want to hide their software. :-)

Sure wanna do that 8=) If it were too easy you'd be missing the sense of adventure, of
searching the unknown, and of finding the unexpected 8=9

Sigh, I'm aware of the sorry state of our directories on ftp.uni-erlangen.de but like many
other things cleaning it up is lingering on my eternal list (maybe after I get X.25/LLC2 for 4.4 
BSD running, get an ISDN driver working, ... 8=)

>Be sure to get the latest version (3.2, if I didn't miss one), since
>scrollback buffers are not in 3.1. (Cut & paste is, but scrollback is
>nice!)  Juergen Weiger seems to put one new feature into each version.
>I like it very much, though I use it only with SunOS and 4.3 BSD, not
>with 386bsd.

It definitely is worth installing --- I've got it running like a charm on BSD/386 right now.

Dirk
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