Re: Virtual Consoles in Hurd

[David Coquil]

Adam Olsen a écrit :
> 
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 02:25:01PM +0000, David Coquil wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:10:14PM +0000, Jose Eugenio Marchesi wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Would be good to make virtual consoles support into the
> > > GNU/Hurd environment.
> > >
> > > But would be useful make it with new powerful features. Some
> > > ideas:
> > >
> >
> > Hi Jose,
> >
> > Classic answer to this : use 'screen'. It has all the features of Linux
> > virtual consoles, and much more. IIRC screen already supports part of the
> > features you requested, like text buffers.
> 
> So why isn't screen installed by default?
> 

Hum... actually for some reason I read virtual terminals instead of
virtual consoles, even though the word "consoles" is in both the title
and the content of the original e-mail. All apologies for being stupid
:).

Now, why isn't screen installed by default, my guess is that whatever
installation method you use, you only get a "minimal" Hurd system.
screen is really usefull but you can live without it.

David