Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 02:05:01 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: Bash Issues |
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In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912131222310.611-100000@mm.wd6dod.ampr.org> Bob Lorenzini (bobl@newportharbornet.com) wrote: > Again, the point that is missed is that for all you "unix hacker guru > types" having to do "set meta-on" an such in a /.inputrc file may not be > a big deal, but end user customers are lazy and don't want to do a weeks > worth of research just to get their displays to look like what they are > used to with NetWare, DOS, NT, Windows 95/98, etc. I know you guys > think I'm anal here or something, but I am trying to make this easy for > our folks who will buy a Caldera or RedHat commercial Linux and the > stuff just works without the user needing to do all this extra stuff to > get what they can get "free and easy" from Microsoft and Novell (like > simple text graphics support for utilities).
> Jeff
> Have you ever been on a clients winblows machine and had to telnet to a > unix box and run a job with ansi graphics and the only telnet tool available > was the msdosbox? Obviously not.
Oh. Really. I forgot about this :-(( DOS's NCSA telnet it 7bit terminal ! I had to patch it when I needed russian letters :-/
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