On Thursday 24 April 2008 21:52, Shane Volpe wrote: > I have noticed that if you exceed 64 characters on a serial login > using getty that when you go to backspace and hit the 64 character > mark that the cursor automatically jumps up one line. Why is this?
I'm sorry, what exactly happens? What does it mean, "when you go to backspace"? > If you have a long command and want to modify something on it, it > becomes pretty hard when you backspace beyond the 64'th character > since your cursor is one line above the text you are trying to edit. I tried to reproduce this and failed. I'm also curious what commands do you enter in getty. IIRC getty asks for username, not commands. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
