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