From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Remote access
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:16:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200008211816.OAA08653@cse.psu.edu> (raw)
when you have to deal with the rest of the
world, it's sometimes not effective to sit
in a corner and chant "TERM=dumb".
as much as i am opposed to cursor addressing,
i use a fair number of legacy applications
through vt (for example, library catalogs
and various network management stuff).
these interfaces are orders of magnitude
better than the web replacements that are
appearing. "constrained" to just text, the
authors had to worry about making it usable.
with the web, now they worry (only, i fear)
about making it pretty.
if you have fixes that make it better handle
missing or incorrectly implemented control
sequences, send them to me and i'll put them in.
russ
next reply other threads:[~2000-08-21 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-21 18:16 Russ Cox [this message]
2000-08-22 8:40 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-22 12:45 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-22 17:49 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-23 14:47 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-23 15:01 ` Nigel Roles
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-08-21 16:30 Anthony Sorace
2000-08-21 13:21 rob pike
2000-08-21 9:52 forsyth
2000-08-21 11:25 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-21 11:41 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-21 14:29 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-08-21 17:04 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-08-21 12:54 ` Wladimir Mutel
2000-08-21 14:28 ` Doug Henderson
2000-08-21 9:00 Chris Drelich
2000-08-21 9:27 ` Lucio De Re
2000-08-21 14:18 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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