From 6ee92be9934de186089f850b3d212754b80ad132 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gferg <>
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:18:25 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] updated
---
LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml | 2 +-
LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml | 2 +-
LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.sgml | 256 +++++++++++--------
3 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 114 deletions(-)
diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
index 5600078d..55662216 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/howtoChap.sgml
@@ -2358,7 +2358,7 @@ implementation, plus auxiliary packages like Ghostscript.
Text-Terminal-HOWTO,
Text-Terminal HOWTO
-Updated: October 2001.
+Updated: November 2001.
Explains what text terminals are, how they work, how to install and
configure them, and provides some info on how to repair them.
diff --git a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml
index 2d789f65..235ac4c1 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/docbook/HOWTO-INDEX/hwSect.sgml
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ a Psion palmtop.
Text-Terminal-HOWTO,
Text-Terminal HOWTO
-Updated: October 2001.
+Updated: November 2001.
Explains what text terminals are, how they work, how to install and
configure them, and provides some info on how to repair them.
diff --git a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.sgml b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.sgml
index c37f9729..8a23b5e0 100644
--- a/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.sgml
+++ b/LDP/howto/linuxdoc/Text-Terminal-HOWTO.sgml
@@ -2,10 +2,12 @@
Text-Terminal-HOWTO
David S. Lawyer
- v1.25, Oct. 2001
+ v1.26, November 2001
-
After you log in you will notice (by using "top" or "ps -ax") that
-the getty process is no longer running. What happened to it? Why
-does getty restart again if your shell is killed? Here's why.
+
After you log in you will notice (by using "top", "ps -ax", or
+"ptree") that the getty process is no longer running. What happened
+to it? Why does getty restart again if your shell is killed? Here's
+why.
After you type in your user name, getty takes it and calls the login
program telling it your user name. The getty process is replaced
@@ -3488,7 +3503,7 @@ command line after editing getty and you should see a login prompt.
The If you use . If you use .
@@ -4032,7 +4047,7 @@ In Serial and Text-Terminal -->
Introduction
With some implementations of getty (getty_ps package), the commands
that one would normally give to stty are typed into a getty
configuration file: /etc/gettydefs. Even without this configuration
file, the getty command line may be sufficient to set things up so
-that you don't need stty."')
+that you don't need stty.
One may write C programs which change the stty configuration, etc.
Looking at some of the documentation for this may help one better
@@ -4446,7 +4463,7 @@ would help avoid this problem.
there's another way to get the source-code if you have the compiled
code. Just use the " In order to save disk space, one may delete all of the terminfo
database except for the terminals types that you have (or might need
in the future). Don't delete any of the termcaps for a "Linux
-terminal" (the console) or the xterm ones if you use X-Windows. The
+terminal" (the console) or the xterm ones if you use X Window. The
terminal type "dumb" may be needed when an application program can't
figure out what type of terminal you are using. It would save disk
space if install programs only installed the terminfo for the
@@ -4585,7 +4602,7 @@ yes or types in the actual terminal type s/he is using. Then tset
sends the init string and sets TERM to this terminal name (type).
Terminfo/Termcap Documents