From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 20 09:47:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA08323 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 09:47:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.231.236.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08304 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 09:46:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pechter@shell.monmouth.com) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA15443 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:45:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199806201645.MAA15443@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: PCVT's death To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 12:45:59 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In reply to : > > pcvt is dying, syscons is THE console driver in freebsd. > If we need more functionality we will have to extend the API with > those new items (allready happend once with the nw "wheel" mouse) > that is inherent through all of the systems drivers, nothing special > here. I should hope that pcvt wouldn't die. There are a number of us who interact with machines that don't know about SCO Ansi or cons25 (including my DEC boxes) and we need something which can do real vt100 compatibility. I really don't want to have to run screen for this on console screens. PCVT will die here when it's ripped from my cvs repository over my dead body. 8-) Actually, I'd love to see a full vt100/220 emulation option put in to syscons to get a unified console driver -- but I'd be pretty surprised to see anyone do it because it's not something everyone wants or needs. Bill +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bill/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive | Tinton Falls, New Jersey 07724 | | 908-389-3592 | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. | | pechter@shell.monmouth.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message