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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
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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)
-- 
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. ;-)