On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Karen R wrote:
> hi all,
>
> one week ago when my friend telnetted into my machine, i tried using kvt
> under kde to have a 'write' session with him. he couldn't 'see' me and
> he had to start a xterm window so i could use write with him.
>
> the following is extracted from an email with him:
>
> >>Another thing, I checked the terminal window I have on my
> >>panel, and it is kvt.... and it runs bash also, just like the xterm
> >>does. So can't figure out why you couldn't see me from the kvt
> >>but could from the xterm.
> >
> >kvt evidently doesn't make an entry in the 'utmp' file, which is
> >how write/talk knows who is logged in.
> >xterm does this initialization, and then starts a shell.
>
>
> i would like to be able to use kvt to hold write/talk sessions... as it
> scrolls and the info in it can then be saved to a file.... so all
> instructions on things in that session won't be lost as it is with
> xterm.
>
> anybody feel like writing out detailed instructions on how i could do
> this, if it is possible?
>
> it would be much appreciated!
>
> karen
>
How about brief instructions, try shift-pgup in the term your useing, or
xterm and rxvt have scrollbars (different the windows, just practice a few
times it's not that different i mean it's just a scroll bar after all)
gnome-terminal also has scroll bars. shift-pgup shift-pgdn work on just
about every commandline you find (excludeing some serial and other
non-capable terminals)
