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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
> > > This is a problem with BL. The aliases are very useful on command
> > > line, but they do not work in scripts.
> >
> > Is there some way to use an alias in a linux script like that?
>
> A script runs in a fresh environment (although you can
> export variables to that environment).  If you look in
> /etc/profile, you will see some variables are exported
> (i.e. any scripts you call will contain those variables).
> I've never tried exporting aliases, but I'm guessing it
> will work.
>
> > I hope Steven will some day have time to compile a version
> > of links2 that also works with SVGAlib
>
> It's not a matter of time.  Steven has no interest in
> SVGAlib for BL3 (which was designed to use X for graphics).
> BL1 was designed to use SVGAlib for graphics.


Could you compile links2 for BL1 /SVGAlib?  Or maybe a statically compiled 
version that will work on both BL3 and BL1 with SVGAlib?

links2 in X simply won't work on my 486 laptop with BL3 because I cannot 
do enough colors on it.  Other people also have laptop computers that do 
no more than 8-bit color.  This is typical of older laptop 486s - one of 
ours does just greyscale, two do 4-bit or maybe 8-bit color.  Are there 
also older pentium laptops that won't do 16-bit color?

I suppose you would tell us all to use BL1/Netscape instead of BL3.
BL3 is nicely set up for PCMCIA modems already.

> Cheers,
> Steven
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