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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GPM Daemon for FreeBSD?
Date: 21 Aug 1995 06:19:55 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <4198ib$hb7@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
References: <40suqq$3k0@ddi2.digital.net> <Pine.BSF.3.91.950818164835.222D-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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In article <Pine.BSF.3.91.950818164835.222D-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>, Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>
>Yes..yes..yes.. This was about the only thing I liked about Linux (ooops..
>sorry..but true..not for everyone!). I miss it in FreeBSD and was thinking
>about posting exactly this same thing.
In the meantime, why don't you run `screen' on your consoles? It
has full scrollback with cut-and-paste to terminal and to file
capabilities. I suggest running it in conjunction with a high-
resolution text mode using the pcvt console driver. Very nice
combination, even if all you need is the cut-and-paste.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org