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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie Questions
Date: 29 Oct 1995 17:36:38 +0100
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Jeremy Dobrick <morpheus@aksi.net> wrote:

>2) This is silly but I kind of miss the color menus from Linux- is this 
>availible fro FreeBSD?

What are they for?  (Sorry, dumb question -- i've never been using
Linux that much.)

>3) I d/l the sys source and I have a lot more than I expected, do I nedd 
>the src for anything except /sys/i386 to rebuild the kernel?

The entire /usr/src/sys, not only the i386 part.

>4) Is there a simple terminal program like Minicom for FreeBSD? The PPP 
>term is not that great IMHO and seyom is a pain.

I always use cu(1).  Most likely not what you want. :-)

There's something like pcomm, but don't ask me what it does...
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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