Date: Fri, 8 Mar 1996 11:33:31 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: mdz@netrail.net (Matt Zimmerman) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serial console? Message-ID: <199603081833.LAA17338@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960307185331.30725A-100000@netrail.net> from "Matt Zimmerman" at Mar 7, 96 06:56:53 pm
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> Has any work been done on adapting a console driver to talk VT100/220 on a > serial port, rather than using the keyboard and VGA? If not, does anyone > have any comments on what would be involved? Input shouldn't be too > difficult, but I don't know much about how output is handled in the > current setup. Uh, console code doesn't send escape sequences; programs do. Console code interprets escape sequences. To make the serial console interpret VT100/220 escape sequences, attach a VT100/220 compatible terminal. 8-). To make programs send VT100/220 escape sequences, set your TERM environment variable appropriately. To use the visual config (which isn't a console app, really), use a real console. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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