On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 03:48:26PM +0300, Dmitry Butskoy wrote:
Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I can't use copy-paste on my Volker-Craig VC 4404! http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/tty/index.htm
Looks sarcasmish a little...
Actually, there are servers without VGA card at all. Sometimes ago Linux began to support "serial console" (and even Grub supports it fine). For such servers, a vt220-compatible dumb terminals (normally) used as a console. (Certainly, these terminals are a little more modern than in the link above :) )
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I fully agree. Serial console is a very important use case -- I just checked the serial console on a server that I admin and it didn't appear to be able to use pasted Japanese characters at all. For example, pasting in にほん results in:
;'c+cls 'c
appearing on the command line.
TERM is vt100 and the serial console is a Cyclades TS2000, if that makes a difference.
Rich.
PS. VC 4404 was the first dumb terminal I used, connected to a Convex 1 supercomputer running some derivative of BSD. Wish I still had that :-)