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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

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