Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Mark Baker
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <m2af3pnn8t.fsf@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>,
	David Kastrup <dak@mailhost.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
> Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:
> 
>> I'll never write apps for a GUI desktop, be it called kde or w!"|"|
>> doesn't matter. Good old termcap- or ncurses interfaces are the
>> best.
> 
> Termcap and ncurses are evil.  Anybody that has accidentally started
> worms or robots or vi on a printing teletype can tell you that.

If they started at all, then your TERM variable was set wrong. Set it to
reflect the real capabilities of your printing teletype (i.e. almost
nothing) and it won't cause any problems,

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From: mark@aziraphale.demon.co.uk (Mark Baker)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/09/25
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