From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 28 00:41:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA15036 for current-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:41:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA15030 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:41:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA19385 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:10:57 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA13788 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:10:57 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA00538 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:02:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606271702.TAA00538@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Syscons CUT&PASTE functionality added...y To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:02:41 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606260714.JAA26197@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at "Jun 26, 96 09:14:15 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As sos@FreeBSD.org wrote: > I looks to me like the number one reason folks run pcvt is that it > does a pretty good job at vt220 emulation. I have a version of syscons > that loads its term interpreter as a LKM and so it can be changed to > some other emulation. If would could get a volounter to take pcvt's > vt220 emu and massage it a bit, I'll help with the syscons interface > and what extra hooks might be nessesary. Don't underestimate it. Downloadable charactersets, a permanent character mapping feature (to support a multitude of charsets simultaneously where many chars are actually in a joint subset), and the reduction to only 8 colors (in favor of 512 different characters total) are about the price. (There are more nifty but not DEC-VT related features like the ability to control the VGA RAMDAC, which are IMHO incompatible with syscons' goals.) I don't think it's really worth the while. Sharing a common layer of keyboard (and mouse) drivers seems to be not all that difficult however (don't forget the psm driver...) -- 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. ;-)