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From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD routing
Date: 25 Sep 1995 17:25:44 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International
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In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 22 Sep 1995 23:12:50 +0200



Joerg writes:

>>worse in others (flakey console support, somewhat less software). 
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>What exactly?

The major problem I'm having at this point is getting the meta key to
do the right thing under all circumstances.  At first I found that I
had to set the PCVT-META-ESC (or whatever it's called) option in the
kernel to change the meta key from setting the 8th bit to sending an
escape in order to get both emacs and tcsh to work right.  This didn't
make any sense to me, since tcsh worked OK without this option, and I
thought emacs was supposed to treat the 8th bit as the meta bit.  But
when I rlogin to the box, I have the same problem as before---the
high bit apparently is seen with tcsh but ignored with emacs.

I found that this all worked with no hitches under Linux, so that's
why I called it `worse' under FreeBSD.
-- 
Fred Gilham                     gilham@csl.sri.com