From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 27 03:14:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA06645 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 03:14:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-39-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA06640 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 03:13:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id NAA06325; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:11:48 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199810271111.NAA06325@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/loader hangs after arrow/function key pressed at prompt In-Reply-To: from Andrzej Bialecki at "Oct 27, 98 12:05:21 pm" To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:11:45 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Robert Nordier wrote: > > > There following patch makes a difference here, though I'm not sure > > this is necessarily the only problem. > > This patch fixes the problem here. Thanks. Good to know, thanks. > I'm wondering, though, why the cursor in boot: prompt is non-destructive, > i.e. when I press backspace, the cursor moves back but doesn't erase the > character from the screen. After some doing mistakes in input, the screen > looks messy... You're right. The old (biosboot) code outputs "\b \b" where the new code just does '\b'. I'll commit a fix for it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message