From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: what is TERM? Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:06:42 +0200 Message-ID: <857ibplt6l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <200807131432.m6DEW4Mi023437@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215961634 25117 80.91.229.12 (13 Jul 2008 15:07:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:07:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 13 17:08:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KI3B1-0004VS-3u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:07:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59947 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI3A9-00053n-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:06:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI3A4-00052K-Ns for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:06:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KI3A2-0004ym-0O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:06:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39818 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KI3A1-0004yh-Qw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]:37180) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KI3A1-0000II-C6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 11:06:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.30]) by mail-in-11.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B73E420907B; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (mail-in-03.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.43]) by mail-in-13-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A13251B8E42; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-034-089.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.34.89]) by mail-in-03.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656A230AC49; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:06:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 7F60A1CFAEF1; Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:06:43 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <200807131432.m6DEW4Mi023437@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> (Dan Nicolaescu's message of "Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:32:04 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.3/7701/Sun Jul 13 15:23:18 2008 on mail-in-03.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100640 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu writes: > Does anyone know what the #ifdef TERM code in src/s/gnu-linux.h is > supposed to do? > > process.c has this: > /* TERM is a poor-man's SLIP, used on GNU/Linux. */ > #ifdef TERM > #include > #endif > > Nothing defines TERM, so can all the code that depends on it go? You can compile with -DTERM, I suppose. term is a serial line communications program not requiring administrator priviledges used for tunneling TCP ports to a normal dialup modem login. Since no admin rights are required for tunneling, the local programs need to be recompiled with a special library so that they try looking up the ports on the other side first. In that manner, one can, for example, use Emacs on the local machine for reading Usenet and sending Mail to the remote machine where one just has a normal terminal account. It is probably not used all too much anymore: pure terminal dialups have become rather rare. One reference I found on the web is . -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum