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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD v. Linux
Date: 27 Mar 1997 14:56:41 -0800
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <01bc3ac7$63594930$232c3d9b@muna019>,
Andreas Hinterleitner <ahinterleitn@bangate.eur.compaq.com> wrote:
>- why /dev/console types everything to ttyv0 (why doesn't Linux do such
>things)? How can I change this behavior?

As i understand it, by default /dev/console is off in /etc/ttys, so
everything that would go to console goes instead to v0, which i guess
is your de facto console.  I think that this would be the desired
effect; if you don't want things going to it, you might want to try
fiddling with your syslog.conf.

>- anyone can tell me where I can find complete sources to Open Look/Open
>View that compile under FreeBSD?

You should install the xview-config and xview-lib ports first, then
install olvwm (if that's what you want).

>- where can I get some information about what I have to define in termcap
>to match my keyboard? What are all the ESC-sequences? Is there a table wich
>sequence corresponds to wich scancode? Wich program shows me the keyboard
>scancodes or ESC-sequences?

I'm not sure...  man 5 termcap? ;)  If you want to see what a
particular key echoes, try hitting Ctrl-V and then the key (e.g.,
F1).  Note that it echoes different things depending on your terminal
setting.

rone
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