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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: HELP: VT100 terminal with higher text resolution?
Message-ID: <1993Jun13.153738.18632@gmd.de>
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 15:37:38 GMT
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In article <DERAADT.93Jun7223221@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>In article <1993Jun7.170802.16164@news.uta.edu> sholder@cse.uta.edu (Shane Andrew Holder) writes:
> I would like to find a terminal emulator for my 386bsd system that
> will use a text resolution higher than 80x24.
>
> I was using a resolution 132x[50 60] or something really high under
> Linux and would like something that will produce the same.
>
>This is a good idea.
>
This is not so simple as it looks (even if one might think that
setting two or three VGA registers would suffice). The bad awaken
comes with X11 and some of the more interesting interactions between
X11, ddb, and virtual consoles. But this problem *will be solved*
with the "united console driver" we are currently specifying in the
console consortium.
>
> I would also rather have vt100 emulation than pc3 because I telnet to
> other machines that don't recognize pc3 and things get really screwed
> up with the terminal.
>
>This is an *even* better idea. the console device driver *should* be
>vt100, rather than something based on the losing "ansi" emulation.
>Every try to place a character in the bottom right corner on an ansi
>emulation? Many of them can't do this without silly tricks.
>
>I guess that everyone has settled on codrvr being the standard driver
>for the future. I have not looked at it yet to see if it's vtXXX
>emulation, but if it's not I'm going to be very grumpy for a day.
>(Not that vt100 is perfect, but it's better than pc3)
> <tdr.
No, codrv has no vt100 emulation for the moment due to an agreement
with Hellmuth Michaelis, the author of pcvt. But codrv has the stubs
to link in a different terminal emulator without much problems;
provided someone takes the co_pc3.c module as a template and
writes the code for e.g. vt100 (hint,hint). This may be a valuable
improvement for the next+1 patchkit (0.2.4 will have codrv itself).
An interface like the one used here will be used in a much improved manner
in the "united driver" as well, so this one will also allow
different emulations (BTW: to create/avoid further confusion:
the united driver is neither codrv nor pcvt nor syscons nor pccons).
Holger
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