Subject: Re: which TERM for high comfort
To: port-pmax@netbsd.org <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Martin Stark <Martin.Stark@rz-online.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 01/07/2000 12:36:30
Simon Burge wrote:
>
> Martin Stark wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Is there anybody out there?
>
> Yep!
>
Great!
[...]
> > installed itself in about 2 hours without any problems.
>
> Good to hear everything worked well! Is there anything in the doco you
> would change after your experiences?
not really...
>
> > Now I'm wondering which TERM I should choose in oder to get a little
> > comfort in working with vi and other tools based on ncurses or
> > something like that.
>
> If you are using the -current snapshot, "rcons" is what you want.
> For 1.4.1 and the 1.4.2 release, "sun" should work.
Using the 1.4.1 I tried rcons: no terminal of that type...
But: sun works fine!
Thank you!
[...]
> > Ah, and... does anybody know of a bash-port for port-pmax?
>
> Look at the NetBSD package system. There's some precompiled binaries
> for 1.4.1 in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.4.1/pmax. These
> will work with 1.4.1, the 1.4.2 snapshot and -current.
I got it and it runs very well!
>
> Simon.
Thank you, Simon.
Greetings, Martin