From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 9 12:21:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA19555 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA19550 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:21:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA13965 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:21:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id VAA18985; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:08:45 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701062141.TAA08163@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Philippe Regnauld on Jan 9, 1997 07:06:19 +0100 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)