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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.174808.8380@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:48:08 GMT
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- kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) writes:
- : 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...
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- One small point you will need to have this running setuid root.
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