Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Polytropon
Some question, inspired by my mainframe time... Is there a port that allows FreeBSD to be equipped with some kind of status line when using the shell on a text mode console? With status line I mean some automagically updating text line that informs about... date, time, terminal, actual system

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:04:59AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Some question, inspired by my mainframe time... Is there a port that allows FreeBSD to be equipped with some kind of status line when using the shell on a text mode console? With status line I mean some automagically updating text

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:02 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like something screen(1) offers. See sysutils/screen. Much too complicated. :-) I'm using screen on a daily basis to manage multiple SSH sessions (very comfortable tool), but for something that should run

Re: Status line for text mode console

2008-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:30:15 +0100, Polytropon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:10:02 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like something screen(1) offers. See sysutils/screen. Much too complicated. :-) I'm using screen on a daily basis to manage multiple SSH