The Unix Haters' Handbook

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Dave McGuire wrote:
>> On Apr 15, 2008, at 12:07 PM, woodelf wrote:
>>> Lets talk about non-broken tools so that we can run the old
>>> machines properly
>>> like a terminal emulator that works like a real terminal?
>>> Linux to my knowlage has none.
>>    Sheer madness.  I use kermit in an xterm window all the
>> time...works great..
>>
>>    I always use a real terminal when one is available, though.
> 
> Am I the only one who can't stand not being able to have a log of output 
> that I can scroll back through, and not being able to cut and paste 
> text from the terminal window?
> 
> Those are the two main reasons I normally rather use a laptop or 
> $macine_with_windowing_environment than a real serial terminal.  (This 
> doesn't mean I don't have and don't use serial terminals, just that a 
> real serial terminal is rarely my first choice for something that I 
> want to be functional, instead of just "neat" and "pretty". :)

If I'm on a console, it's usually enough of an emergency that 
cut-n-paste is not really going to be the right tool.

Peace...  Sridhar