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From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: Console Driver
In-Reply-To: glt@cco.caltech.edu's message of 11 Jun 1993 10: 47:09 GMT
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In article <1v9nrdINN412@gap.caltech.edu> glt@cco.caltech.edu (Greg Tanaka) writes:
> A while back there was some talk about unifying the three major console drivers
> to make one awsome one that everyone would use.  I read something in the 
> pcvt documentation about mailing to console@somewhere to get in on the discussion
> about this developement.  Well my mail bounced, so I assume that this is not
> taking place.  Or is it?  Can someone who knows inform us all?

I would really like it is pcvt had the X support that codrvr has. In this day
and age, I find it really stupid to have yet-another-wimpy-termcap entry to
need to be created, when a vt220 is a pretty darn good termcap entry. Also,
thus far, I have heard very good things about pcvt's emulation.

I sent some mail to the pcvt people to ask them about this, but have received
no answer yet.
 <tdr.
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