Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread erik quanstrom
> because it doesn't emulate a device that was last built decades ago. > At least they don't demand 3270s. true. but at least 3270 emulation makes sense. those programs were written for that terminal decades ago, and never supported a variety of terminals. the alternative is a layer of web goo,

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread erik quanstrom
On Mon Sep 10 05:01:33 EDT 2012, cinap_len...@gmx.de wrote: > i know that telnet, con and the old ssh have -r option that > supresses carriage return. not sure about the new ssh2 tho. it does. - erik

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread Charles Forsyth
I have a script "u" that does just that, allowing "u date", "u man", "u ./configure" and so on. % cat bin/u #!/bin/rc SHELL=/bin/sh path=(/usr/local/sbin /usr/local/bin /usr/sbin /usr/bin /sbin /bin /usr/bin/X11 /usr/games) MANPAGER=/bin/cat exec $* On 10 September 2012 10:45, dexen deVries wrot

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread dexen deVries
On Monday 10 of September 2012 10:42:12 Charles Forsyth wrote: > From GNU programs you will then get moans about the terminal: > %TERM=dumb > % man date > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional > - (press RETURN) % TERM=dumb % PAGER=cat % man date DATE(1)

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread Charles Forsyth
>From GNU programs you will then get moans about the terminal: %TERM=dumb % man date WARNING: terminal is not fully functional - (press RETURN) because it doesn't emulate a device that was last built decades ago. At least they don't demand 3270s. On 10 September 2012 10:20, Aram Hăvărneanu wrot

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread dexen deVries
On Monday 10 of September 2012 12:20:22 Aram Hăvărneanu wrote: > What happens if you set TERM=dumb? Since I've set TERM=dumb I've never > seen this. thanks, works for me :D -- dexen deVries [[[↓][→]]]

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
What happens if you set TERM=dumb? Since I've set TERM=dumb I've never seen this. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread cinap_lenrek
i know that telnet, con and the old ssh have -r option that supresses carriage return. not sure about the new ssh2 tho. -- cinap

[9fans] carriage returns and other characters in acme/rc

2012-09-10 Thread Christopher Hobbs
Some programs like git and zsh (when I ssh into other machines) will spew out carriage returns and other characters like this when run under 9term, acme, or rc: http://cl.ly/image/2Q0F3v3Y1T28 http://cl.ly/image/2v313p1h1O3n This is happening in p9p, vanilla plan9, and 9front. Is there a means