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Subject: Re: New doscmd available for testing/munching
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
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In reply to Michael Smith who wrote:
> 
> And anyone who is familiar with the issues involved in mmap()ing screen
> memory is asked to contact Alexy Pialkin (pialkin@abel.pdmi.ras.ru) to
> provide some advice for proper vt save/restore operation in raw console
> mode.

I've got a mail from him, and some code fragments to look at...
I havn't had time yet looking at it seriously, but from a
quich glance it look somewhat bogus to me, for a quick reference
look in the XFree86 stuff concerning screenswitch, or in my
old libdgl that should be "out there" somewhere maybe still on:

ftp://login.dknet.dk/pub/sos/libdgl.tar.gz


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