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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!bonnie.heep!not-for-mail 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. Lines: 29 Message-ID: <40pnoc$p1k@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> References: <GILHAM.95Aug14144028@lily.csl.sri.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.109.108.139 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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) -- 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. ;-)