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From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 22:22:09 +0800
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r447625 - in head/sysutils: . chvt chvt/files
To: Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org>
Cc: Ben Woods <woodsb02@freebsd.org>, 
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On 9 August 2017 at 20:32, Jan Beich <jbeich@freebsd.org> wrote:

> FYI, on FreeBSD you can implement chvt(1) via shell script:
>
> $ cat ~/bin/chvt
> #! /bin/sh
> # The file is under Public Domain if not obvious
> vidcontrol </dev/ttyv0 -s "${1?usage: chvt N}"
>

I wasn't aware - thanks for the heads up.

Given its already committed, it probably doesn't hurt to keep this port
with the C programming language option as an alternative to vidcontrol.

Regards,
Ben