Subject: Re: virtual terminals?
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/24/2004 21:22:39
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:47:53PM -0600, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> > I was under the impression that screen did not work with the 68k's, and
> > that's why we had dt.  Has this changed?

That's not true at all. The main thing "dt" has going for it, over
"screen", is the mouse support, and the fact that's it's not GPL'd.

> I find that very hard to swallow.
>
> screen does everything it does within the OS abstraction. If there's
> something that "does not work with 68ks" (no apostrophe on that...),
> then it's probably a bug in NetBSD's pseudo-ttys on m68k.

"screen" works fine on mac68k.

Frederick