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From: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: What type of terminal is /dev/console?
Summary: It ain't s4, and it isn't adm3, so what is it?
Keywords: s4 adm3 curses
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.135333.18630@sci.ccny.cuny.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 90 13:53:33 GMT
Sender: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
Reply-To: jeffrey@sci.ccny.cuny.edu (Jeffrey L Bromberger)
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Organization: City College of New York - Science Computing Facility
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I dumped the ua and converted to mgr about 3 months ago.  In the
process, I also stopped loading wind.o.  Now here's where the question
comes in.

When I log in, or when mgr exits, I see funky characters at the bottom
of the screen.  From poking around, it looks like the CI (cursor
invisible) termcap string for a S4 terminal.  Well, no s4
functionality when the window driver is gone.  The /etc/profile claims
it's an adm3, but that also fails - vi can't do it's screen stuff.
While I agree it's not often I want to use /dev/console, it'd be nice
to be able to use it in an emergency to edit files.  Since the manual
is as effective as always :-( does anybody out there have the info
I'm looking for??

Thanks for any light you can shed on this subject.

j
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Jeffrey L. Bromberger
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