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Re: net/mosh: confusing MESSAGE?



I never had to specify $MOSH_KEY and lack of UTF-8 is fatal error with
verbose message in mosh.

On 29.05.2017 21:41, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> cvs log tells me I added the MESSAGE file when I imported the package.
> 
> I'm not well-placed to speak to how confusing it is, and I think I
> must have added it because I was unsure of how to set it up, and
> didn't find details easy to come by.
> 
> If you find the message is confusing, please feel free to delete it.
> 
> Best,
> Alistair
> 
> On 29 May 2017 at 10:52, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> When installing net/mosh, the following message appears:
>>
>> ===========================================================================
>> $NetBSD: MESSAGE,v 1.1.1.1 2012/07/20 03:15:29 agc Exp $
>> ===========================================================================
>>
>> To invoke the server, you need to use a UTF-8 character set, and
>> a hard-coded string of "new" (to make mosh-server use getopt). e.g.
>>
>>         % env LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" mosh-server new -i 192.168.98.130
>>         MOSH CONNECT 60001 2zDOoujUVJ1AW4YFYw36sg
>>         %
>>
>> and to connect to that server, the invocation is
>>
>>         % env LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" MOSH_KEY=2zDOoujUVJ1AW4YFYw36sg \
>>                 mosh-client 192.168.98.130 60001
>>
>> Please note that this package uses UDP, and so packets may be filtered
>> in certain environments.
>> ===========================================================================
>>
>> I feel like this message is more confusing than anything else. AIUI, the intended use of mosh is as a drop-in replacement of ssh, i.e. you run „mosh hostname“. This logs in via ssh and sets up the server connection.
>>
>> How about just removing the message?
>>
>> —Benny.


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