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Subject: Re: [9fans] Remote access
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:16:10 -0400
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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