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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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