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Date:      Fri, 06 Nov 1998 13:07:03 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ficl 
Message-ID:  <199811062107.NAA00965@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Nov 1998 21:59:46 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811062153200.23415-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> 

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> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > > > Devices: Apart from video and serial consoles, disk and net devices
> > > > are currently provided for.  Though, at least on the i386, it should
> > > > be reasonably easy to add access to anything that has BIOS or other
> > > > firmware support.
> 
> (As a side note: I recently act as a panic detector :-) /boot/loader with
> Forth enabled dies on me after your recent changes).

My recent changes?  Which ones?

> I have a question concerning at-xy, cls, and perhaps get-xy words. They
> are clearly arch dependent, so if I come to implementing them (I said:
> "IF" ;-), where I should add them? And, is this so simple as
> vidc_getchar() suggests?

You should always use getchar() and putchar(), and assume a minimal ANSI
terminal.  vidc_putchar will have to become a minimal ANSI terminal 
emulator.


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