[rescue] Silly NetBSD question

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 12:41:37PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> BTW, I missed your mention of not being able to read the manual pages.
> That's kinda weird.  I wouldn't expect any problems, not even with the
> most primitive terminal emulator.  The manual pages are all
> pre-formatted to print on a line printer.  Programs such as less and
> more know how to interpret line-printer codes to add bold, underline,
> etc. on your terminal, provided of course that you've told them to use a
> terminal type that reasonably matches the capabilities of your terminal
> or emulator (i.e. set TERM correctly in the environment), and if you're
> using an emulator provided that it isn't too buggy.

I did set TERM correctly.  It has been suggested to me that I'm an idiot for
trying to use minicom for serial console work, and that I should use C-Kermit
instead.  I installed C-Kermit, now I just have to figure out how to use it
for a terminal emulator.  
 
> At this point I wouldn't touch SunOS-4 with a 100-foot pole, or even a
> 1000-ft pole, especially not for anything even vaguely related to
> production work, and never on anything even remotely reachable from the
> public Internet.

Hmm.  I thought it might be fun to have on hand, and it wouldn't be exposed to 
the external internet.  But, perhaps I'll just use NetBSD now that I've learned
a bit about how to use it.
 
> >  I'm trying to set up these two boxes to take over for 
> > a win98 box running Windows Internet Connection Sharing.
> 
> NetBSD comes with IP Filter, which can work as a NAT/PAT.

Yeah, I know.  I think I might need to recompile the kernel to make it go, 
but that shouldn't too hard.  I also need RP-PPPOE for the modem. I'm making
some progess, just it is slow.

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Joshua D. Boyd