RE: console question

RE: console question

[Dave Korn]

On 17 May 2006 16:36, Jeff Lange wrote:

> Although it seems like a waste, I need it to look exactly like a dumb
> terminal

  Ah, then you want to stick a punched-paper-tape reader on the side of the
housing, that'll make the illusion convincing!

    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

RE: console question

[Owen Rees]

--On 17 May 2006 19:03 +0100 Dave Korn wrote:

> On 17 May 2006 16:36, Jeff Lange wrote:
>
>> Although it seems like a waste, I need it to look exactly like a dumb
>> terminal
>
>   Ah, then you want to stick a punched-paper-tape reader on the side of
> the housing, that'll make the illusion convincing!

If you are thinking of <http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/teletype.jpg> 
then it should have a paper tape punch as well and it should be 80x(how 
long is a roll of paper?) and go 'ding' when printing past column 72. It 
should also be UPPER CASE ONLY. IT SHOULD ALSO MAKE A NASTY SMUDGE OF THE 
NEXT CHARACTER IF YOU SEND <LF><CR> RATHER THAN <CR><LF> AFTER PRINTING A 
MODERATELY LONG LINE.

I suspect that the real desire is for something more like 
<http://www.tentacle.franken.de/adm3a/> but in that case IT SHOULD ALSO BE 
UPPER CASE ONLY AND IT SHOULD BE 80X24 NOT 80X25.

If letting people use lower case is to be permitted, then perhaps 
<http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/vt100.html> is more like it. It 
should still be 80x24 rather than 80x25 (unless you select 132x14 mode).

-- 
Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

Re: console question

[mwoehlke]

Ack, http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU reformatted. Also PCYMTNQREAIYR. 
(For the record, I am not /technically/ guilty of that; my mailer quotes 
the name, which in "clayne"s case, *is* an e-mail address.

Also taking my own advice and TITTTLing.

Hammond, Robin-David%KB3IEN wrote:
>  On Thu, 18 May 2006, mwoehlke wrote:
>> clayne -at- anodized.com wrote:
>>> Do you use a 640x480 screen? Full screen for a console sounds like a 
>>> grand
>>> waste of field of vision.
>>
>> Eh, I *love* my full-screen consoles... sooo much text you can see at 
>> once! Of course, I also have no fewer than... um... four ;) monitors 
>> here.
> 
> I find a full screen console for each monitor is the way to go. the 
> program 'screen' is a better way to juggle multiple windows than any 
> graphics window manager in my experience, Mac OS X has nice 
> transparencies, but it doesn't interoperate with X11 very well (at all 
> AFAIK).

Personally, I am very happy with Konsole run full-screen for juggling 
sessions. The tab bar with *names* is a nice way to keep track of what 
you have going, and I get 197x71 with the only "frills" being the menu 
bar (which I could get rid of if I wasn't worried about finding it 
again), a very useful scroll bar, and the aforementioned session tab 
bar. Of course, it doesn't let me "detach" remote sessions, but I can 
live with that if I can see my sessions at a glance and don't have to 
learn the keys for 'screen' :-).

-- 
Matthew
Hey, buddy, if it's OT, TITTTL!