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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.ultranet.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie Questions Date: 29 Oct 1995 17:36:38 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <470aim$rv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <46racu$87h@wn.aksi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jeremy Dobrick <morpheus@aksi.net> wrote: >2) This is silly but I kind of miss the color menus from Linux- is this >availible fro FreeBSD? What are they for? (Sorry, dumb question -- i've never been using Linux that much.) >3) I d/l the sys source and I have a lot more than I expected, do I nedd >the src for anything except /sys/i386 to rebuild the kernel? The entire /usr/src/sys, not only the i386 part. >4) Is there a simple terminal program like Minicom for FreeBSD? The PPP >term is not that great IMHO and seyom is a pain. I always use cu(1). Most likely not what you want. :-) There's something like pcomm, but don't ask me what it does... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)