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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!mits!kennu
- From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
- Subject: Can you access a virtual console directly?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.164729.28907@mits.mdata.fi>
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:47:29 GMT
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- Can you access a linux virtual console directly, something like what
- you usually do with MSDOS when writing characters and attributes to
- B800:xxxx?
-
- I think it might be useful for writing a terminal program that would
- be a bit more sophisticated than kermit or XComm. It feels a bit
- dumb to use termcap-codes to handle the local output, if you know
- you'll be using this terminal from the virtual consoles only.
-
- I thought I might ask for advice, since if I succeed in writing a
- terminal program, I don't want it to break with the next kernel
- release because of using some odd non-fixed memory address or
- something...
-
- Thanks,
-
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- kennu@mits.mdata.fi
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