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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PVCT VT100 Driver Date: 17 Jun 1997 22:15:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <5o729j$ja8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <EBw6HD.IMq@nonexistent.com> <5o5mdq$bmt@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43087 brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers) wrote: > There is. I don't use pcvt, and I can't remember off-hand how it's > done. Joerg may follow up with some facts :) Here he is. :-) I don't wanna repeat my entire posting i did just a couple of days ago. Thus in short only: pcvt has only 8 colors available, and thus no high-intensity colors. That's why it emulates bold/reverse/ underline with colors. This decision was necessary to support the full set of characters a good VT220 emulation needs to provide. (The `bold' bit has been sacrified in favour of a 512-char character generator, some rarely used feature by the EGA/VGA architecture.) -- 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. ;-)