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Date:      Tue, 27 Oct 1998 13:11:45 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>
To:        abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki)
Cc:        rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com
Subject:   Re: /boot/loader hangs after arrow/function key pressed at prompt
Message-ID:  <199810271111.NAA06325@ceia.nordier.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9810271202170.28155-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Oct 27, 98 12:05:21 pm"

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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Robert Nordier wrote:
> 
> > There following patch makes a difference here, though I'm not sure
> > this is necessarily the only problem.
> 
> This patch fixes the problem here. Thanks.

Good to know, thanks.

> I'm wondering, though, why the cursor in boot: prompt is non-destructive,
> i.e. when I press backspace, the cursor moves back but doesn't erase the
> character from the screen. After some doing mistakes in input, the screen
> looks messy...

You're right.  The old (biosboot) code outputs "\b \b" where the new
code just does '\b'.  I'll commit a fix for it.

-- 
Robert Nordier

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