i am just trying to understand. there are things i don't like, and want to do
better. i don't know where else to learn, i do search and read and study
whatever i can. i do read with intent to learn. it appears to come down to
an argument of:
support everything ever made in the world
or
Re:Starting with Unix (Score:4, Insightful)
by spitzak (4019) on Sunday April 27, @01:18PM (#5819797)
(http://www.cinenet.net/~spitzak)
Terminal driver design is certainly a stupid part of Unix. Back when this was
written there certainly was a serious mess of terminals which would actually
fail
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 06:41:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re:Starting with Unix (Score:4, Insightful)
by spitzak (4019) on Sunday April 27, @01:18PM (#5819797)
(http://www.cinenet.net/~spitzak)
Terminal driver design is certainly a stupid part of Unix. Back when this was
written
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[ ... ]
Terminal driver design is certainly a stupid part of Unix. Back when this was
written there certainly was a serious mess of terminals which would actually
fail non-gracefully on output designed for other terminals.
But this is not true today. Today EVERY SINGLE
You don't think you're alone because you've Googled a lot?
heh :)
namely, i am not happy with the current selection of text editors
(i find joe(1) to be very good, but it's got some problems and
is aging without good development),
136-sec# ls /usr/ports/editors | wc -l
200
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the basis for this question was to determine if it was
feasible to write a portable FBSD application and/or library
without external dependencies.
You can write portable ANSI-C code using the STDIO routines, without external
dependencies upon termcap,
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Do you need color? Are you using plain text-mode stuff, or do you need
bitmapped graphics? If text-mode, do you need cursor positioning? Do you
care whether your code runs on anything but an Intel box?
over years of coding, i got fed up with some basic things.
i am trying to develop terminal I/O based code,
and found myself meandering down a path
to acquire terminal knowledge (i don't
need to be told of SLang/ncurses/...).
i can't readily find an answer to this, but
i am assuming DEC terminals don't scroll left/right?
i've never used a terminal, so i
I wonder with this is really relavent to FreeBSD questions.
But in any case here is my 2 cents worth.
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 16:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am trying to develop terminal I/O based code,
and found myself meandering down a path
to acquire terminal knowledge (i don't
need to be
On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 07:29:24AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i am trying to develop terminal I/O based code,
and found myself meandering down a path
to acquire terminal knowledge (i don't
need to be told of SLang/ncurses/...).
UNIX is designed not to rely on one single terminal type.
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