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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
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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. ;-)