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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, ugen@latte.worldbank.org
Subject: Re: dset & userconfig
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>It's all my fault 8)  I made the (obviously lame) assumption that dset
>just read the condfig out of the running kernel and wrote it back into
>the one on disk.  

>This is obviously at least partly true, as if you don't boot with -c, 
>userconfig() is never called.

Then the list of changed devtabs is empty and dset has a particularly
easy job of doing nothing.

>This is a major stumbling block just now; it looks like pcvt doesn't
>actually _do_ cursor keys at that point in the boot process, so I'm
>considering asking Jordan to pull the plug on the new userconfig until I 
>manage to work that out.

Also, in user mode it normally returns different escape sequences for
the two sets of arrow keys.

Bruce