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From: hm@hcswork.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis)
Subject: pcvt 3.20 beta 23 available for testing
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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 21:01:57 +0200 (METDST)
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    This is to announce the final beta test cycle for pcvt 3.20, beta 23

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, 2.0 and -current)

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.

      The next official release of pcvt will happen on April 30 1995.

           There will be a least one other beta cycle until then.

Beta 23 is the release candiate and i will only accept bugfix patches for it.

Things done since beta 22:

	bugfixes for
		- the "Gateway 2000" problem of hanging/nonresponding keyboards
		- a minor X bugfix
		- bugfix for VT mode and force 24 lines
		- minor fixes and cleanups

Please have a look at Doc/ChangeLog for details.

With respect to FreeBSD-current support, Joerg writes:
	Due to a recent change in sys/i386/i386/cons.c in FreeBSD-current,
	it's actually impossible to login more than once into the VT that's
	being used as the system's console.  This is a well-known problem, the
	sio driver is also affected by it, only syscons got a workaround (by
	using another tty structure).

	The problem is yet to be solved, any suggestions are welcome. Please
	direct them to <joerg@freebsd.org>

pcvt 3.20 beta 23 can be found on:

        Host:        gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
        Address:     137.226.31.2
        Directory:   pub/incoming
        File:        pcvt-320b23.tar.gz
        Size:        330739 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        GFKT HCS Computertechnik GmbH        Hamburg, Europe
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