From: jepstei@afterlife.ncsc.mil (John Epstein) Subject: Re: linux-0.98.3 termcap problem Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1992 16:23:16 GMT
>In article <1992Nov1.101439.10943@klaava.Helsinki.FI> torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds) writes:
>So if you seem to have problems with termcap, make sure you have an
>entry for "console" which essentially looks like vt100 or vt220. That
>should be the default (well, it was in *my* termcap even before I did
>the changes to 0.98.3), but it may not be true of all systems.
>
> Linus
This WORKS GREAT for old binaries. As a matter of fact, for xcomm which
with con100x40 used to leave a virtual console (VC) hosed so that vi
could not be used --- wrong number of lines, vi et al can be used on the
virtual console after running xcomm. [This never was a serious problem,
as "reserved" VC 1 for XC].
I will still only use VC 1 for minicom or xcomm so that cannot startx
while downloading [esp. after midnight].
BTW: xcomm appears faster than minicom when doing trn to remote host.
John