Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
Technical correctness should be thrown out in the
name of popularity.
I tend to think that technical correctness is a higher virtue than consensus,
popularity, ergonomics, or any other darn thing, and anyone who disagrees
is simply pandering.
Sorry, when the key on a keyboard just does not work then it is
technically wrong. I think we should stop pandering to people who like
things broken and just fix the problems.
But since the power to enforce that without having people just walk away
from it would be an ugly thing, I would remind everyone of
/kernel/drv/options.conf. Find the example line preceeded by the comment
"For SunOS 4.x defaults that are 8-bit clean for internationalization, use these
modes", make a copy of it, and change the :7f: to :8: and plug that in as
the value for ttymodes, then reboot.
SunOS 4.x. ??? I think your manuals are out of date.
Or as the file describes, use stty to set the modes you like on the raw
console or a terminal emulator that does _not_ do key mapping beyond what
tty modes do, and then capture the output of stty -g and put that in there.
It should just work! No user intervention.
And I _still_ think a personality option during install would be a big help,
but it looks like it ought to not just set a default PATH that chooses between
conflicting traditional Solaris vs GNU commands, but also sets up options.conf.
Anything else that might become part of a "personality" setting?
Keeping in mind that for peaceful coexistence,
I would prefer that things like keyboards just work in any personality.
Doug
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