[18263] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.11: termcap, as used by tcsh, /usr/bin/less, vi, etc.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Stone)
Tue Sep 12 19:37:24 2000
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 19:37:20 EDT
From: Larry Stone <lcs@MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: <lcs@MIT.EDU>
To: "andrew m. boardman" <AMB@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:30:29 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <CMM.0.90.4.968801840.lcs@defiant.mit.edu>
>
> >>[xterm termcap is broken on linux athena systems]
> >It's tailored for modern XFree86 xterm.
>
> How broken! What would people think about a rearrangement of the Linux
> Athena termcap entries?
>
> This behaviour, IMHO, is really amazingly inappropriate for a system used
> in a network environment. (And arguably anywhere else.)
I agree; when you telnet from one Athena machine to another, it ought to
work! Although it may not seem like much of a problem now with the Linux
machines mostly in clusters, private Linux Athena hosts will have to
support remote access from Athena Suns.
-- Larry
