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Date:      Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:08:45 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 2.2-BETA comments
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970109210845.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970109070619.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>; from Philippe Regnauld on Jan 9, 1997 07:06:19 %2B0100
References:  <Mutt.19970106211628.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701062141.TAA08163@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> <Mutt.19970109070619.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>

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As Philippe Regnauld wrote:

> 	There is in PCVT -- though I think PCVT is slowly rotting away... 

Yep, sadly.  It would require a major overhaul in order to remain
useful.  Neither the Hellmuth Michaelis (the author) nor me really
have the time and energy for doing this, however.  I work mostly in
X11 these days, so the driving force is slowly fading away.

Don't ask about merging it with syscons: the VT100 emulator is vastly
incompatible with the conception of syscons.  In order to be done at
least halfways useful, it requires 512 character cells, thus only 8
colors are available.  Screenmapping is not an option, but always
present.  I think all of this would be in the way of integrating it
into syscons (and taking it away would render the VT100 emulator
fairly pointless).

I thought about integrating the new keyboad driver into pcvt, but
seems it will take another 20 years before i'll get the time doing
this...

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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