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From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
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To: Stephen Waits <swaits@pr.erau.edu>
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Subject: Re: Going to pcvt
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On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Stephen Waits wrote:

> On Sat, 28 Oct 1995, Chuck Robey wrote:
> 
> > Are there any instructions anywhere about what I have to do to transition 
> > from syscons (which I've always used) to pcvt?  I have 4 virtual 
> > consoles, 3 I use and one dedicated to X, and I am unhappy with the
> > screen termcap codes, so I thought to use pcvt (with it's vt220 
> > emulation) instead.
> 
> Reconfigure your kernel to use pcvt instead of syscons..

That's it, no userland changes?

> 
> Is there any chance vt220 support is going to be added to syscons anyone?
> 
> --Steve (http://pr.erau.edu/~swaits)
> 
> 

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