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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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.inetnebr.com!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!data.ramona.vix.com!sonysjc!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: BSD vs Linux X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Lines: 21 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <EAGK8L.4F4@nonexistent.com> References: <337A4307.3BF9@vertexcomm.com> <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <5lm7v4$fpi$1@kayrad.ziplink.net> <EADAtI.F4@sphynx.fdn.fr> <5locgj$auk@tofu.alt.net> X-Trace: 864095348 3084 le [165.254.191.2] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 02:29:09 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41282 Eric Yagerlener (eyager@novagate.com) wrote: : Philippe Causse (causse@sphynx.fdn.fr) wrote: : : Mikhail Teterin (mi@rtfm.ziplink.net) wrote: : : : Honorable Peter Mutsaers : : : wrote on 15 May (in article <87lo5gfn6s.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl>): : : : : =................................................... No nice : : : =high resolution text modes. : : : : Not true :( vidcontrol(1) lets you set modes to 50x80 or 60x80 and others, : : : depending on what your hardware supports. It can also load fonts and change : : : back- and foregraound colors. Other things... : : The console fonts used in Linux are 100% compatible with FreeBSD. I've : got a whole zip file full of screen fonts. : : On my particular setup, the 50 and 60 line video modes are now broken in : the 2.2.1-RELEASE. It used to work in the 2.1.0-RELEASE. How about in 2.2.2?