Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 06/20/1999 16:16:32
Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> writes:
> Since the command output change to being displayed in a subwindow, the
> progress meter sucks bigtime on serial consoles.  It steps a line for
> each update of the progress meter, and displays up to about 30ish% on a
> large file then finished (successfully tho!).  A few people on port-pmax
> (including myself - using tip(1) in an xterm as the console) have seen
> this behaviour.  I dunno if it's a dicky termcap - does it work cleanly
> on say an i386 with wscons, or even an Alpha with a serial console?

I'll investigate it.  Thanks for the info.


cgd
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