Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 21:08:45 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA comments Message-ID: <Mutt.19970109210845.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970109070619.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>; from Philippe Regnauld on Jan 9, 1997 07:06:19 %2B0100 References: <Mutt.19970106211628.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701062141.TAA08163@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> <Mutt.19970109070619.regnauld@tetard.glou.eu.org>
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As Philippe Regnauld wrote: > There is in PCVT -- though I think PCVT is slowly rotting away... Yep, sadly. It would require a major overhaul in order to remain useful. Neither the Hellmuth Michaelis (the author) nor me really have the time and energy for doing this, however. I work mostly in X11 these days, so the driving force is slowly fading away. Don't ask about merging it with syscons: the VT100 emulator is vastly incompatible with the conception of syscons. In order to be done at least halfways useful, it requires 512 character cells, thus only 8 colors are available. Screenmapping is not an option, but always present. I think all of this would be in the way of integrating it into syscons (and taking it away would render the VT100 emulator fairly pointless). I thought about integrating the new keyboad driver into pcvt, but seems it will take another 20 years before i'll get the time doing this... -- 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. ;-)
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