On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 09:26:18AM -0700, Brent Fulgham wrote: > > Ok, so why does telnetd require ncurses? I'm not completely sure that > > telnetd is hanging for this reason, though. > > > I am. ;-) > > If you look at the telnet source you can see that it makes use > of ncurses (or whatever the default console code is -- in hurd's case > on Debian it's ncurses). It uses this code to control the screen > display.
Note he wrote telnet*d*, the daemon. > > How close is the 1015 tarball to the most recent collection > > of .deb files? > It is up to date with the 1004 series of Hurd base packages (Marcus, > please correct me if I am wrong). Yes. All packages are up to date. > > Is it necessary to install the .deb files at all, or can I > > just untar the 1015 tarball and run with that? > No, yes. The tarball contains the base system, and should have > everything you need to get a bare system. You then need to install > the various *.deb files for non-critical stuff like a decent editor, > development tools, etc. I am not sure (but suspect) that the tarball > contains an old set of telnet utilities. No. The telnet in recent tar files should be recent. I am not sure what is causing the problem. Maybe the pfinet server is not set up correctly. Marcus -- "The purpose of Free Software is Free Software. The End and the Means are the same." -- Craig Sanders Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
