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Re: what is TERM?
From: |
Dan Nicolaescu |
Subject: |
Re: what is TERM? |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:37:35 -0700 |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> 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 <client.h>
> > #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
> <URL:http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/info/usage/term_howto.html>.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
So is it worth keeping this code?
To use this code one would have to hack the build system to use an
undocumented flag (-DTERM), and to want to use network connections in
emacs in a not very common setup.