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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Console configuration
Date: 15 Aug 1995 11:01:00 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Fred Gilham <gilham@lily.csl.sri.com> wrote:
>I tried to use the pcvt driver. That seems to give the `alt'
>behavior---unless I run emacs, which is the whole point of the
>exercise---but the pcvt driver seems kind of flaky, especially with
Huh?
>tcsh. For example, I managed to get it into a mode where it would
>only print on a single line every time I ran `less'. I don't know how
>I did this...
By screwing your TERM variable. Remember, pcvt is emulating a VT220,
so set your TERM to either vt100 or vt220.
Btw., Alt-F11 (gives you the menu), and pressing the F key for ``Do
full reset'' would have helped...
>I can't find much documentation on the console drivers. I know
>there's a kcon program for the pcvt driver but as I said, that driver
>was not real stable for me. The keymaps that are in /usr/share are
>unintelligible to me.
man 5 keycap (for pcvt's key maps)
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cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)