From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 28 22:31:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA08709 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 22:31:19 -0700 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id WAA08702 for ; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 22:31:10 -0700 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id GAA29501; Sat, 29 Apr 1995 06:31:50 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199504290531.GAA29501@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: Screen print capability To: mpp@mpp.com (Mike Pritchard) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 1995 06:31:50 +0100 (BST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504282254.RAA03844@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Apr 28, 95 05:54:07 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 805 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Mike Pritchard who said > > Is anyone else out there interested in seeing a screen print capability > added to FreeBSD? I've developed something that does this, and would > like to see it added to the system, but I thought I would ask for > additional input before submitting a final version. > > I implemented a /dev/screen device with code adapted from subr_log.c > (/dev/klog). A daemon process (screend) sits and waits via select until There's already a well known screend out there. Rename it to something else. I like the idea though. -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.