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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!col.hp.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: Writing to lower right of console Date: 2 Oct 1995 23:38:12 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 19 Message-ID: <44ppkk$rv0@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DFrvI6.8ro@wuschel.ibb.schwaben.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ullrich von Bassewitz <uz@ibb.schwaben.com> wrote: >If I write to the last char of the screen (the char in the lower right >corner), a scroll happens and my last line goes one line up, the first >line vanishes. >I know, that this is not really a freebsd problem, many terminals may have >this too. Of course, and i think curses avoids writing to this spot (or does some magic). The pcvt driver will work, since it features a VT220/320. I'm afraid there's no chance to get it on syscons (but i'm not sure). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)