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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!uunet!199.60.229.3!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.new-york.net!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> Subject: Re: Difference between rlogin and telnet Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Senate Industries Message-ID: <EBDEr6.8xL@nonexistent.com> References: <864993028.196308@reef.island.net.au> <5n7aco$osi@uriah.heep.sax.de> <5n8vsg$909@news.gvsu.edu> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: 865627888 11429 nathan [204.141.125.38] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: senate.org Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 20:08:57 GMT Lines: 36 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42522 Matt Behrens wrote: > > J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: > : brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: > > : > > I know it causes me problems. My school's HP-UX machine doesn't know what > : > > "cons25" is. > : > > : > Not surprising. You could always create a terminfo entry and > : > submit it :) Or if HP-UX uses termcap, just ask your admin to > : > add it (give him the entry from the FreeBSD termcap database). > > : Finally, you could opt for the pcvt driver on FreeBSD. ;-) > > : (The above scenario is actually one of _the_ reasons for the people > : who use it. You can get away with a vt100 or vt220 entry on virtually > : any toybox on this planet.) > > Actually, I had been using PCVT for a bit. I always wondered why the VT's > were on Alt-F5 and above, though (I think that was it..) > > -- > Matt Behrens > Zigg Computer Services > zigg@iserv.net > http://www.iserv.net/~zigg/ Hah! I tried running PCVT once, and bold text came up as red-reverse-video, reverse-video text came up as blue-reverse-video. -- ##################### For PGP key, telnet senate.org 5000 # Nathan Dorfman # or finger nathan@senate.org # Senate Industries # /'-- www.senate.org | ftp.senate.org -- `\ ##################### \________________________________________/