Subject: Re: Is this just the way it is with 1.4 Pmax?
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/04/1999 20:41:29
On Mon, 04 Oct 1999, Toru Nishimura wrote:
>>> You could try 'sun-il' and see how that works.
>>
>> Now that is a strange one.  Why would I be expected to look for a SUN
>> monitor description to come up on a DEC machine?
>
>Very counter-intuitive, but it's because the way to raster console
>designed.  NetBSD/alpha has the same property as it also shares rcons
>code with other ports.

  Would it be a pain to add a termcap alias called "rcons" or something like
that, to sound less system-specific, or am I missing something obvious?

               -Dave McGuire