Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:38:45 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@unix.tfs.net> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCVT's death (fwd) Message-ID: <199806210238.VAA04185@unix.tfs.net>
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----- Forwarded message from jbryant ----- >From jbryant Sat Jun 20 21:38:13 1998 Subject: Re: PCVT's death In-Reply-To: <E0ynWR9-0005hn-00@oak67.doc.ic.ac.uk> from Niall Smart at "Jun 20, 98 11:48:43 pm" To: njs3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Niall Smart) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 21:38:13 -0500 (CDT) Reply-to: jbryant@argus.tfs.net X-Windows: R00LZ!@# MS-Winbl0wz DR00LZ!@# X-files: The truth is that the X-Files is fiction X-Republican: The best kind!!! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jun 20 11:57:05 CDT 1998 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] Content-Length: 1548 In reply: > 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? well, if pcvt is dying, then why don't we incorporate some of it's better features, such as 132 columns [with 25, 43, 50, and 60 lines] into sc? jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ ----- End of forwarded message from jbryant ----- -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inet: jbryant@tfs.net AX.25: kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam grid: EM28pw voice: KC5VDJ - 6 & 2 Meters AM/FM/SSB, 70cm FM. http://www.tfs.net/~jbryant ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HF/6M/2M: IC-706-MkII, 2M: HTX-212, 2M: HTX-202, 70cm: HTX-404, Packet: KPC-3+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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