Re: Sequence of events at init (was boot) - fixed (sort of)

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

Hal wrote:
> On 10-12, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 
>>I don't use jstar or its ancestor joe, but the 
>>Debian package for joe describes it as WordStar-like. That means -- at 
>>least in its jstar configuration -- it is a fullscreen editor using 
>>(probably) nsurses, and it may not function properly when called 
>>non-interactively, say, as any bash script might.
> 
> 
> 	I know Ray encourages comments like this; so AFAIK, since
> I've been using Joe and it's many key mapping derivatives, Joe runs
> vga=normal and doesn't need curses, at least the versions I'm using.
> <grin>  Correct me if wrong..

You're right that I do favor this kind of kibitzing. It's why I always 
try to keep my responses on-list, not private (though I messed up this 
time around with one reply).

That said, here's what the Debian package archive says about joe:

Package: joe
Priority: optional
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 880
Maintainer: Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.3-5
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1)

If Debian thinks joe *depends* on libncurses5, then joe does most likely 
*use* ncurses. That's quite consistent with vga=normal; you may have 
been thinking of libsvga, which accesses vga graphics mode without using X.






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