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From: David Nugent <davidn@unique.usn.blaze.net.au>
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To: Josh Gilliam <soil@quick.net>
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On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Josh Gilliam wrote:

>On the subject of FreeBSD equivalents; Is there anything similar
>to Linux's `gpm', a mouse utility which supports copy and paste
>of text on the console

Yes - moused(8).  It is loaded via entries in /etc/sysconfig (you
may already be using it now?), and use vidconfig -m on to turn
the mouse pointer on in any vt session.

This is with 2.2 and -current only. Cut and paste works pretty
much like they do in X.


Regards,

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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