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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:55:38 -0500
From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 10:27:34AM -0800, Mark Cartwright wrote:

> Does anyone know if there are any plans to make
> console terminal emmulation work properly under
> freebsd/sparc64?  I am not a developer, but I can't
> imagine it would be that difficult to borrow some code
> from the other BSD's (opena and net) which both are
> capable of running X locally and have full support for
> the sun terminal type.

I can't speak for other developers but these issues are something
I'm interested in taking care of at some point if nobody else gets
to it first.  That said, I have absolutely no clue what kind of
a timeframe that would happen in.  I'm still getting my bearings
and have another obligation or two within the project.

-- 
						Ken Smith
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