From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 20 15:49:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20374 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 15:49:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from heron.doc.ic.ac.uk (mAD67mqFODAi9boCWbgTBfM7RQeRmq4E@heron.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.46.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA20364 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 15:48:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk) Received: from oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.33.67] ([1rs7Sqw8lWHREvDTUarZ24uOZEaFDXI9]) by heron.doc.ic.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0ynWRA-0004LL-00; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:48:44 +0100 Received: from njs3 by oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk with local (Exim 1.62 #3) id 0ynWR9-0005hn-00; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:48:43 +0100 From: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 23:48:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter "PCVT's death" (Jun 20, 12:45pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jun 20, 12:45pm, Bill/Carolyn Pechter wrote: } Subject: PCVT's death > > 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. Well why not tell them about cons25 via termcap or terminfo? Niall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message