Bug 21593

Summary:	Whither cons25, or, cons25 causing interoperability problems
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	pfeifer <pfeifer>
Component:	conf	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me	CC:	mike
Priority:	Normal
Version:	4.1-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description pfeifer 2000-09-27 12:40:01 UTC

	The default terminal emulation when logging in on a text console
	is cons25.

	cons25 does not work on *any* of our non-FreeBSD boxes and seems
	incompatible with both vt100 and xterm, so it is causing all sorts
	of troubles in a heterogenous environment.

Fix: 

Why can't FreeBSD use vt100, xterm, or some other sensible *and*
	common terminal emulation by default?
How-To-Repeat: 
	Console login on a FreeBSD box.  Remote login on a Solaris/Linux/
	whatever box.  Invoke a full screen program.  Good luck! :-(

Comment 1 dd freebsd_committer

2001-09-06 14:16:48 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This is more of a gripe than a bug report.  If there's something technically 
wrong with cons25, please propose an alternative to an appropriate mailing 
list.  Filing a bug report that effectively says "it sucks" isn't going to 
help :-).

Comment 2 pfeifer 2001-09-15 21:45:18 UTC

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001 dd@freebsd.org wrote:
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: dd
> State-Changed-When: Thu Sep 6 06:16:48 PDT 2001
> State-Changed-Why:
> This is more of a gripe than a bug report.  If there's something technically
> wrong with cons25, please propose an alternative to an appropriate mailing
> list.  Filing a bug report that effectively says "it sucks" isn't going to
> help :-).
>
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21593

Well, you could call it a gripe.

However, the fact that this PR was only closed after one year, and the
fact that basically FreeBSD is not interoperable with any other system
I have access, *does* show that the current situation is undesirable.

If you don't want to call it a bug, call it a misfeature, but, please,
reopen the PR.  (PR stands for problem report, and this definitely *is*
a problem.)

Gerald
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Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/