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From: pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at (Gerald Pfeifer)
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Cc: "Thomas 'Mike' Michlmayr" <mike@cluon.priv.at>
Subject: Whither cons25, or, cons25 causing interoperability problems
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>Number:         21593
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       Whither cons25, or, cons25 causing interoperability problems
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Sep 27 04:40:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:    Thu Sep 6 06:16:48 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sat Sep 15 13:50:03 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Gerald Pfeifer
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:


>Description:

	The default terminal emulation when logging in on a text console
	is cons25.

	cons25 does not work on *any* of our non-FreeBSD boxes and seems
	incompatible with both vt100 and xterm, so it is causing all sorts
	of troubles in a heterogenous environment.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Console login on a FreeBSD box.  Remote login on a Solaris/Linux/
	whatever box.  Invoke a full screen program.  Good luck! :-(

>Fix:

	Why can't FreeBSD use vt100, xterm, or some other sensible *and*
	common terminal emulation by default?

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dd 
State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 6 06:16:48 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is more of a gripe than a bug report.  If there's something technically 
wrong with cons25, please propose an alternative to an appropriate mailing 
list.  Filing a bug report that effectively says "it sucks" isn't going to 
help :-). 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21593 

From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: <dd@freebsd.org>
Cc: <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: conf/21593: Whither cons25, or, cons25 causing interoperability
 problems
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:45:18 +0200 (CEST)

 On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 dd@freebsd.org wrote:
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
 > State-Changed-By: dd
 > State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 6 06:16:48 PDT 2001
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > This is more of a gripe than a bug report.  If there's something technically
 > wrong with cons25, please propose an alternative to an appropriate mailing
 > list.  Filing a bug report that effectively says "it sucks" isn't going to
 > help :-).
 >
 > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21593
 
 Well, you could call it a gripe.
 
 However, the fact that this PR was only closed after one year, and the
 fact that basically FreeBSD is not interoperable with any other system
 I have access, *does* show that the current situation is undesirable.
 
 If you don't want to call it a bug, call it a misfeature, but, please,
 reopen the PR.  (PR stands for problem report, and this definitely *is*
 a problem.)
 
 Gerald
 -- 
 Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/
 
 
>Unformatted:
