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to: Michele Marie Dalene
from: Maurice Kinal
date: 2003-10-01 20:04:34
subject: Local logon

Hey Michele!

Oct 01 20:50 03, Michele Marie Dalene wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MMD>     Yes I know ;)  But thats the whole point. You would not be
 MMD> stuck writing hard coded routines for the console. Meaning if a 
 MMD> Linux
 MMD> user is using a serial console say running on a Heath Zenith H19
 MMD> terminal, As long as he has written a good terminfo.... he is
 MMD> ready to go. Terminfo Entries not our work ;) It also means that a
 MMD> terminfo entry would be easier to change if the terminal doesn't 
 MMD> work
 MMD> quite right. Plus it provides a very BIG part of portability, and 
 MMD> THAT
 MMD> is a big plus on this project and meets the original projects
 MMD> objective.

I couldn't agree more.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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