Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 22:19:00 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ficl Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811062215420.23415-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199811062107.NAA00965@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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? Erhm... You're right, it was jkh... anyway, it screams and dies. > > 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. ANSI.SYS or cons25 -compatible? This also means keeping some state inside get/putchar() so that it recognizes esc sequences... Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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