Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 4 Apr 1997 22:12:39 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: modify termcap to support both A[FB] and S[fb]...
Message-ID:  <19970404221239.CA51772@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199704041804.LAA19566@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Apr 4, 1997 11:04:57 -0700
References:  <19970404004714.27849@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> <199704041804.LAA19566@phaeton.artisoft.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
As Terry Lambert wrote:

> The problem with PC hardware is that there are 16 foreground colors
> and either 8 background colors and the ability to blink, or 16
> background colors and no ability to blink.

That's only one possible mode of operation.  Another one (as used
by pcvt) is to have 8 foreground colors only, with the ability of
using 512 character cells in the chargen.  pcvt needs this mode to
be closer to the rich charset abilities of VTxxx ttys, as opposed
to the poor 256 chars of a typical PeeCee.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19970404221239.CA51772>