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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:47:10 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Switching vty's from software?
Message-ID:  <199504232247.XAA02523@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199504232227.AAA02772@jette.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 24, 95 00:27:28 am

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In reply to J Wunsch who said
> 
> > 
> > Is there a way to switch vty's from software. If not can it be added.
> 
> ioctl(fd, VT_ACTIVATE, vt_no);
> 
> Note that vt_no is 1-based.

Great.

> 
> Remember, that libforms could also be run off a plain VT100. :-)
> 

libforms isn't quite what it used to be. Wait and see :-) It'll still
run on anything that supports ncurses though.

-- 
  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
  Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home)
  Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.



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