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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: pcvt 3.20 beta 21 ready for testing
To: port-i386@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 21:33:57 +0100 (MET)
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    This is to announce the final beta test cycle for pcvt 3.20, beta 21.

Pcvt is a video/keyboard driver for i386-based NetBSD (0.9, 1.0 and -current)
                and for FreeBSD (1.0, 1.1R, 1.1.5.1R and 2.0).

Pcvt has almost full VT220 compatibility, supports national keyboard remapping,
24/25/28/40/50 lines and 80/132 columns and a configurable number of virtual
screens for character terminal and X11 sessions. It comes with a complete set
of fonts, utilities and documentation for easy integration into the above
mentioned systems.

Beta 21 is the release candiate and i will only accept bugfix patches for it.

Things done since beta 16:

	bugfixes for
		- keyboard handling
		- virtual screen switching
		- MDA/HCG and EGA support

Please have a look at Doc/ChangeLog for details. The bugfix for the virtual
screen switching made it necessary to issue another beta cycle but hopefully
made screen switching and writing to non-current displayed screens and 
X server screens much more robust.

Things to do:

	fix bug for FreeBSD pre-2.1 causing a kernel panic in the boot phase.

Pcvt 3.20 beta 21 can be found on:

        Host:        gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
        Address:     137.226.31.2
        Directory:   pub/incoming
        File:        pcvt-320b21.tar.gz
        Size:        321980 Bytes

	Note: the file is invisible!

        (Thanks to Thomas Gellekum and Christoph Kukulies !)
	
Please report any bugs, suggestions, fixes and diffs to hm@hcs.de.

Thank you,
hellmuth
-- 
Hellmuth Michaelis    HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH    Hamburg, Europe
 Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined (Murphy)
   The opinions expressed above are my own and not the opinions of anybody else