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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!unix.sri.com!csl.sri.com!news!gilham From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD routing Date: 25 Sep 1995 17:25:44 GMT Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 23 Message-ID: <GILHAM.95Sep25102544@lily.csl.sri.com> References: <GILHAM.95Sep20094636@lily.csl.sri.com> <43v8si$cb0@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csl.sri.com In-reply-to: j@uriah.heep.sax.de's message of 22 Sep 1995 23:12:50 +0200 Joerg writes: >>worse in others (flakey console support, somewhat less software). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >What exactly? The major problem I'm having at this point is getting the meta key to do the right thing under all circumstances. At first I found that I had to set the PCVT-META-ESC (or whatever it's called) option in the kernel to change the meta key from setting the 8th bit to sending an escape in order to get both emacs and tcsh to work right. This didn't make any sense to me, since tcsh worked OK without this option, and I thought emacs was supposed to treat the 8th bit as the meta bit. But when I rlogin to the box, I have the same problem as before---the high bit apparently is seen with tcsh but ignored with emacs. I found that this all worked with no hitches under Linux, so that's why I called it `worse' under FreeBSD. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com