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Article #1832Re: KDE v. Gnome
From: David Damerell
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
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[colx removed from discussion of teletypes.] James Youngman <james@no-such-thing-as-a.free-lunch.demon.co.uk> wrote: >David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes: >>Termcap and ncurses are evil. Anybody that has accidentally started >>worms or robots or vi on a printing teletype can tell you that. >If you have a non-printing teletype, isn't it broken? I think he intended to distinguish it from a 'glass tty'; a terminal so stupid it can do no more than a printing teletype (no cursor control, etc.) Starting ncurses applications on one of these doesn't waste paper, although it won't work. -- damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk T000B320O500T000N230O500T000L000D510G653I500 T000V430H600T000T000V453S530A530T000D625T000B453T000E200T300S500A530T000V220 A530T000S525A530T000L500O500L500T200I200T000F462T000C415H532A554F400F650T000 A554G453I500T000V430H600T000T000V453S530G520R530A530A653A530A653A530A653A530
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1103af,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid1103af,public X-Google-Thread: fcfb9,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gidfcfb9,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,942a0596db2b8174 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 10d8ad,4460b3faefba3773 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8ad,public From: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk (David Damerell) Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome Date: 1998/09/28 Message-ID: <BrE*3+9Gn@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> X-Deja-AN: 395598860 References: <6snt2s$rnk$1@news-2.news.gte.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.980923105630.13773B-100000@howard> <slrn70ic1k.97.homer_j_ <x6sohgorpw.fsf@no-such-thing-as-a.free-lunch.demon.co.uk> Organization: Linux Unlimited Reply-To: damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss Originator: damerell@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk ([127.0.0.1])