From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 21 16:57:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28931 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28911 for ; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:57:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18713; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:57:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Sue Blake cc: Bill/Carolyn Pechter , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 08:42:01 +1000." <19980622084201.30984@welearn.com.au> Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 16:57:33 -0700 Message-ID: <18709.898473453@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Just to add to the motivation... I've spoken to a few people lately who > have several Linux boxes and started converting them to FreeBSD, then > changed their minds. One complaint is that FreeBSD won't talk VT100 > in a way the Linux boxes can understand, and vice versa. It's not so I'd have to say that they most likely changed their minds for other reasons and you're just hearing one small side of the story. Anyone insufficiently motived to find out that there's a vt100 capable console driver sitting in LINT (which is itself pointed to no less than 10 times in the handbook and twice in the FAQ) with the following comment at the top: # Enable this and PCVT_FREEBSD for pcvt vt220 compatible console driver Is not someone who's going to last much beyond the next minor hurdle, whatever that might be. I'm not even sure my little idea is such a good way to go, as much as it appeals to my warped sense of humor, so for now pcvt is the way to get a vt100 console and it's not exactly hidden to anyone willing to read even the most well-publicised FreeBSD docs. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message