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- From: gleasokr@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Kris Gleason)
- Subject: scrollback buffers? (Was: Re: QUESTION: CUTCP-like display...)
- Message-ID: <gleasokr.727959663@rintintin.Colorado.EDU>
- Keywords: telnet CUTCP VC scroll
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1993Jan23.135750.6047@cse.iitb.ernet.in>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 11:01:03 GMT
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- vinod@cse.iitb.ernet.in (Vinod Kulkarni) writes:
-
- >CUTCP (telnet program for PCs) offers quite a nice interface to telnet to
- >any other machine. I specially like scrolling back, and monitoring
- >data arrivals in other sessions using slash charaters flipping left and
- >right.
-
- >I either need
- >1. A better telnet program that offers CUTCP-like features, or
- >2. modification to VC code so as to
- > i. Enable scrolling back to previous n'th line. And,
- > ii. A status line at the bottom of screen that shows
- > status of other VCs [arrival of new characters, bells etc.]
-
- I think that some sort of scrollback buffer would be a great addition to the
- VC code in the kernel. I am wondering if anyone has implemented such a
- beast, or if I should work on it myself. (I don't think it should be a
- _standard_ addition, with 1.0 on the way and everything... just a nice
- little hack that would add a little versatility) As for a status bar,
- I could do without... bells ring no matter which vc I'm on, so I can hear
- talk requests and the like. Plus, hitting alt-F2 is not a very big deal
- when I want to check the status of something.
-
- Kris
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