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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Win95 Keys?
Date: 31 Jan 1997 22:10:21 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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espel@llaic.univ-bpclermont.fr (Roger Espel Llima) wrote:
> (That's the default console driver... btw I tried pcvt based on the LINT
> comments that made it sound like it was better, and found it quite
> appalling in comparison. Definitely stay with syscons).
As an excuse: pcvt is mostly unmaintained these days. The author has
got a lot more of work now (he took over ``maintenance'' :) of a
daughter, and is also one of the heads of the BISDN [ISDN for *BSD]
project), so this driver is mostly orphaned. I'm one of the
co-authors of pcvt, but i barely use text consoles myself anymore, so
my interest in further developing it has also decreased drastically.
The only plus pcvt has is that it's a better VT100/220/320 emulator,
so if you're moving around through the internet on machines where you
don't have that cons25 term{cap,info} entry, it makes life easier.
Before you're asking: i figure that the concepts of syscons and a good
VTxxx emulator are mutually incompatible. pcvt has reduced its colors
to 8 in order to be able to get 512 available characters, so the much
richer character set requirements of a VTxxx environment could be
satisfied.
There's acutally some other cute things with pcvt, like the ability to
switch the RAMDAC palette on each VTY switch, so all the VTYs look
slightly different, but i figure that i'm probably the only one ever
using it. ;-) Sadly, the 132-column support quickly faded away as the
old graphics chips that are supported by pcvt are no longer available.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)