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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PVCT VT100 Driver
Date: 17 Jun 1997 09:46:34 GMT
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In article <EBw6HD.IMq@nonexistent.com>,
	Nathan Dorfman <nathan@senate.org> writes:
> I would love a terminal driver whose termcap entry is available
> everywhere, however I tried PCVT once and I got a weird problem where
> bold text shows up Reverse-Video-Red instead of bold and Reverse-Video
> text shows up Reverse-Video-Blue. Is there a way to remedy this?

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 :)

Like with syscons, there are a few utility programs for tweaking
pcvt - apropos may help.

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !