From: joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) Subject: Re: linux-0.98.3 termcap problem Date: 1 Nov 1992 14:44:17 GMT
In article <1992Nov1.101439.10943@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>
>Arggh. Yes, the kernel did change some terminal info in 0.98.3 - namely
>the standard TERM variable. Instead of using the "con80x25" etc names
>(which resulted in terrible /etc/termcap files), 0.98.3 initializes TERM
>to be simply "console". The terminal size is available from the termios
>size structure, and is no longer encoded into the terminal type name.
Is this paving the way for run-time resizing of the screen? Or,
better, different VC's with different sizes?
-Joel