From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: Sequence of events at init (was boot) - fixed (sort of) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:15:22 -0700 Message-ID: <452FBB9A.5070509@comarre.com> References: <53876815734.20061011215642@wa5rrh.us> <4b0d6e0d0610112357n67e2ca1fxe317a07fff725793@mail.gmail.com> <452E6539.4090902@comarre.com> <52946266531.20061012171413@wa5rrh.us> <452EC95D.6050807@comarre.com> <100951833359.20061012184700@wa5rrh.us> <452ED9D1.3010002@comarre.com> <20061013131151.GA1071@lnx2.kvinet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20061013131151.GA1071@lnx2.kvinet.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org 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. > 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 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs