From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 07:22:53 -0400
From: Vadim Antonov avg@postman.ncube.com
Subject: More bugs.
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>i don't have a problem with lines discipline as a technology, it's
>just their misuse that concerns me.  i've seen that (in the old system)
>readln was duplicated in too many places.  that should be addresed.
>adding further /dev/cons modes is a road to ruin:

It still is.  And with different bugs in different places.
Verry funnny.

>	they're unnecessary in any modern system -- rob

Yep.  As long as you don't get to move to a real world where
most of terminals are messy-loss machines, all of them
have vt100 emulator.
    
>on plan9 their are bugger all of these things that want to fool
>with the cons mode; the interface is the window system, not some
>archaic tty interface.  occassionally you are faced with
>this stuff: ftpfs, passwd.  but, for the most part you're not.

Plan9 is a text-based system, just like good 'ol unix.
A window system is merely something to enter text. There is
absolutely *no* reason for making it hard to work from
other systems.  Particularly, my additions to telnetd made
telnet session to feel like 81/2 terminal (though you can't
run sam or do Unicode).
    
--vadim