On 18/07/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
> > On 18/07/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> >> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >> > Since I installed b68 today, it seems this no longer works.  I don't
> >> > know why.
> >>
> >> We haven't changed xterm itself in quite a long time, but the xterm
> >> termcap/terminfo in ON have recently been updated.  (We plan to replace
> >> xterm with the X.Org/XFree86 xterm (the one maintained by Thomas Dickey)
> >> at some point in the not-to-distant future, but haven't yet.)
> >
> > What's the difference, if you have time to expound?
>
> Between what we have now and the X.Org one?   Biggest difference is the X.Org
> one is still maintained and enhanced - what we're shipping now is an old fork
> of it made by li18nux.org which hasn't been updated in years.
>
> I don't know the details about individual features off the top of my head - 
> I'd
> have to go compare our source against the feature list on
> http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html

That is sufficient and mainly what I was trying to find out. I had no
idea it had diverged so much.

Thanks,
-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not
tried it. " --Donald Knuth

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