From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 4 11:14:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C046014C59 for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 11:14:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA02688; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:14:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id MAA61066; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 12:14:02 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001041914.MAA61066@harmony.village.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: Proposal: Removing doscmd from the source tree... Cc: Bruce Evans , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 17:08:11 +0100." <38721AEB.68D35958@scc.nl> References: <38721AEB.68D35958@scc.nl> Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:14:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <38721AEB.68D35958@scc.nl> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : I think it's too system dependent to live in the source tree :-) I don't. It is highly dependent on kernel elements. : From the manpage: : -x Open an X11 window to display output. This enables a variety in- : terrupts not available otherwise. : : Simply compiling with X support also isn't enough, because the default : font (vga) is not present in a default X installation. Ergo: doscmd : won't run in a X window unless you grab a compatible font from the net. Don't need to run with the default font. I've done that *MANY* times. Still works, but you don't get the ibm character set encoding, which isn't that big a deal. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message