TERM for filepro

Jay Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Tue Sep 27 16:04:39 PDT 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

> Y'all catch dis heeyah? Jay Ashworth been jivin' 'bout like:
> > There's a version of Putty for Linux, but in general, you don't *need* a
> > terminal emulator for Linux workstations, you're already *talking to* Linux
> > through a terminal emulator. You just SSH over to the machine with the
> > binaries, and run them, from whatever you're already running,
> > konsole, rxvt or what have you.
> 
> I never understood it, either...

In the days in which emulators did rz/sz, it made a minimal amount of sense.

ISTR that the itch which was being scratched by the dev who cleaned it up to
build for X seemed relatively sensible to me, but I don't remember what it is.

(and jeezus; 3 20" 4x3 monitors is a bunch of real-estate :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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