From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 30 06:09:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA23381 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 06:09:32 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA23363 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 06:09:24 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA10633; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 15:08:32 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA07206; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 15:08:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA05137; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 15:04:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504301304.PAA05137@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Screen print capability To: pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Mike Pritchard) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 15:04:22 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199504300643.BAA05486@mpp.com> from "Mike Pritchard" at Apr 30, 95 01:43:49 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 614 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > However, my current method should also be adaptable to PCVT type consoles > with minimal work. This allows us to be more flexible, instead of > limiting ourselves to an SCO type interface and having to duplicate > code in two different areas (in syscons & pcvt). In this case (pcvt), you should consider to implement the official DEC VT hardcopy controls. I've once intented to implement them myself, but later forgot about the project. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)