From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 18:20:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA28396 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 May 1995 18:20:52 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA28389 for ; Mon, 8 May 1995 18:20:49 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA05319; Mon, 8 May 95 19:14:01 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505090114.AA05319@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: vt100 To: julian@ref.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: Mon, 8 May 95 19:14:00 MDT Cc: ddunbar@ipxpress.aws.waii.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505082208.PAA15000@ref.tfs.com> from "Julian Elischer" at May 8, 95 03:08:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ ... IRC supposedly needing a VT100 ... ] > or config a kernel using the PCVT console driver.. > the PCVT is a PC VT based console > emulating vt220 (I believe) which should accept vt100 commands If you are careful to not put it in enhanced mode (if you do, it will send it's keys with a CSI character (0x9c) instead of ESC-[). And if you are willing to generally lose a line from your display for all other uses (since a VT100/VT220 terminal, by definition, has only 24 lines). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.