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diff --git a/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/README.FIRST b/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/README.FIRST deleted file mode 100644 index 7194a72..0000000 --- a/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/README.FIRST +++ /dev/null @@ -1,291 +0,0 @@ -================================================================================ -| | -| P C V T - VT220 Terminal Emulation Driver | -| ------------------------------------------- | -| | -| NetBSD 0.9, 1.0 | -| FreeBSD 1.0, 1.1, 1.1.5.1, 2.0 | -| | -| Release 3.20 April 1995 | -| | -| ---------------------------- | -| ========>> BETA 24 <<======= | -| ---------------------------- | -| | -| (c) Copyright 1992,1993,1994,1995 by | -| | -| Hellmuth Michaelis | -| Eggerstedtstrasse 28 | -| 22765 Hamburg | -| Europe | -| | -| For the contributors copyrights which apply to parts of the source | -| see the header sections of the respective source files. | -| | -================================================================================ - -Written by: Hellmuth Michaelis (hm@hcs.de) - -The major contributors to pcvt are Brian and Joerg, pcvt would not be what it -is without the help, the support and the code from Joerg: - - Brian Dunford-Shore (brian@athe.wustl.edu) - - wrote parts of the EGA/VGA hardware handling and - some of the more ugly aspects of the VT220. - - Joerg Wunsch (joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de) - - added ALL support for XFree86, the screensaver sub- - system and support for FreeBSD (and much more ...). - - -I have to thank the following people for their help, for beta-testing, bugfixes, -code, keymaps, suggestions, hints, patience and too much more to mention: - - Scott Turner (scotty@gagetalker.com) - Peter Galbavy (peter@wonderland.org) - Michael Havemester (tik@abqhh.hanse.de) - Gordon L. Burditt (gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org) - Bruce Evans (bde@runx.oz.au) - Heiko W. Rupp (hwr@pilhuhn.ka.sub.org) - Carsten Lutz (clu@malihh.hanse.de) - Christian Rohrmueller (internal@doitcr.doit.sub.org) - Andy Duplain (duplain@rtf.bt.co.uk) - Marko Karppinen (dreamer@purkki.apu.fi) - Onno van der Linden (c/o frank@fwi.uva.nl) - Dave Nelson (dcn@ignatz.acs.depaul.edu) - Mark Weaver (Mark_Weaver@brown.edu) - John Brezak (brezak@apollo.hp.com) - Jan-Oliver Neumann (jan@encap.hanse.de) - Kim Andersen (kim@dde.dk) - Michael Graff (explorer@iastate.edu) - Randy Terbush (randyt@cse.unl.edu) - Benjamin Lewis (blewis@vet.vet.purdue.edu) - Daniel Harris (daniel@reubio.apana.org.au) - Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com) - Szabolcs Szigeti (pink@bagira.fsz.bme.hu) - Charles Hannum (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu) - Thomas Gellekum (thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de) - Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@laas.fr) - John A. Perry (perry@jpunix.com) - John Kohl (jtk@kolvir.blrc.ma.us) - Brian Moore (ziff@eecs.umich.edu) - Martin Husemann (martin@euterpe.owl.de) - Lon Willett (willett@math.utah.edu) - Mark Willey (mwilley@mipos2.intel.com) - Bill Sommerfeld (sommerfeld@orchard.medford.ma.us) - Rafal Boni (r-boni@uiuc.edu) - Thomas Eberhardt (thomas@mathematik.uni-bremen.de) - - -History (see also Doc/ChangeLog) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Release Changes/Features -------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- -1.00 (08/92) Released as "pccons_vga" to alt.sources, VT100 emulation - -2.00 (01/93) VT220 emulation, many bugfixes and enhancements - -2.10 (03/93) Fixed bugs, monochrome environments, configuration changes - -2.20 (10/93) never released (experimental internal release) - -3.00 (03/94) Support for XFree86 >= 1.2, support for XFree86 2.0's - syscons/USL model for multiple X servers and/or terminal - sessions from Joerg Wunsch (Thank You, Joerg !!!), fixed - bugs, (n)curses-based EGA/VGA font editor, memory mapped - screens, full MDA/CGA virtual screen support, 132 columns - on some super VGA chipsets, support for NetBSD >= 0.9, - support for FreeBSD >= 1.0 and much more .... - (posted to comp.sources.misc, Volume 41, Issue 140-152) - -3.10 (08/94) never released (experimental internal release) - -3.20 Fast forward/backward scrolling from Michael Havemester, - further optimization by Charles Hannum. Keyboard queueing - for silo overflow minimization also from Michael. - Many bugfixes, cleanups and enhancements. - Support for NetBSD 1.0 and FreeBSD 2.0. - - -Features --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -The 'pcvt' VT220 emulator driver has: - - - Almost full DEC VT220 (VT100/VT102) Terminal functionality - - support for XFree86 >= 1.2 using the pccons model - - full multiple virtual screen / multiple X-server support - for XFree86 >= 2.0 using the USL-VT/syscons model - - Full Support for MDA, CGA, EGA and VGA display adaptors - - configurable number of virtual screens on any video board - - completely independent virtual terminals for any video board - - (24), 25, 28, 40, or 50 lines for each virtual screen on VGA's - - (24), 25, 35, or 43 lines for each virtual screen on EGA's - - Fully remappable keyboard to support national keyboards - - All VT220 character sets plus ISO Latin-1 and DEC Technical supported - - VT220 downloadable character set supported when run on EGA/VGA - - VT220 user defined keys for each virtual terminal - - Optional function key label support a 'la Hewlett-Packard - - Display function codes (0x00-0x1f/0x90-0xaf) functionality - - Optional screen-saving feature - - 132 column operation on several VGA chipsets: - o Tseng Labs ET3000 and ET4000 - o Western Digital WD90C11 - o Trident TVGA9000, TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL - o Video 7 1024i - o S3 80C928 (board dependent) - o Cirrus Logic GD542x (board dependent) - -What it cannot: - - - No double wide/high characters - - No softscroll - - No inverse background - - No VT220 printer output support - - No VT52 support at all - - No 8-bit controls - - Only limited AT-keyboard (84 keys) support - - Help you to make money .... - - -The entire pcvt package consists of: - - - the VT220 emulating driver itself - - complete documentation for installation and operation - - termcap/terminfo, pcvt.el, rc.local, /etc/ttys, xmodmap examples - - cursor: utility to set the cursor size and shape - - fed: curses-based EGA/VGA character set editor - - fontedit: utility to edit the vt220 downloadable character set - - ispcvt: utility to display the drivers compile time configuration - - kcon: utility to setup national keyboard layouts and remap keys - - keycap: keyboard mapping database library similar to termcap - - loadfont: utility to load up to 4/8 fonts into an EGA/VGA board - - mcon: utility to control/configure a keyboard based mouse emulator - - scon: utility to runtime configure the video part of pcvt - - userkeys: utility to set the VT220 user programmable function keys - - vttest: VT100 compatibility torture test program - - some color- characterset- and attribute demos - - vga and keyboard register-level debugging utilities - - -Tested Operating Systems --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - NetBSD 0.9 pcvt release 3.20-b2 tested - - NetBSD 1.0 pcvt release 3.20-b24 tested - - NetBSD-current (post 1.0) reported to run (end of March '95) - - - FreeBSD 1.1R pcvt release 3.20-b7 tested - - FreeBSD 1.1.5.1R pcvt release 3.20-b24 tested - - FreeBSD 2.0 pcvt release 3.20-b24 tested - - FreeBSD-current (post 2.0) reported to run (end of March '95) - - - -Installation / Upgrade --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - R E A D (!!!) THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE Doc/INSTALL.xxxBSD FILES CAREFULLY ! - ========================================================================== - - Again: PLEASE R E A D T H E M !!!!! (Thank You! ;-) - ======================================== - - If you read them, you should have NO problems installing pcvt on your - system, if you don't read them, you'll probably run into problems ... - - If you run into any difficulties, please read Doc/NotesAndHints ! - -NOTE 1: -------- - It is highly recommended in order to configure the driver into the system, - that you remove (and/or backup) your previous kernel compile directory and - do a fresh "config" with the new pcvt configuration. This has to be done - because the chain "config/make depend/make" obviously does not resolve ALL - dependencies! - -NOTE 2: -------- - You MUST copy or link the Util/Makefile.inc.X for your flavour of xxx(x)BSD - to Util/Makefile.inc . This is because FreeBSD handles manual pages - in a differnet way than NetBSD. Also you have to edit Doc/Makefile - to make this changes for the pcvt(4) manpage. - -NOTE 3: -------- - The driver now (from 2.10 on) DEPENDS on the BIOS video display setting - stored in the RTC CMOS Ram - verify your configuration setting! - -NOTE 4: -------- - If you are using the pcvt termcap entry from Etc/Termcap, please reinstall - this into /usr/share/misc/termcap if you are upgrading, the entry had bugs - in release 3.10 and all earlier releases. - - After doing that, you may need to generate a new termcap database for newer - FreeBSD (2.0 and up) and NetBSD (1.0 and up) Releases: - cd to /usr/share/misc and execute 'cap_mkdb termcap'. - -NOTE 5: -------- - The default keyboard layout is documented in Doc/Keyboard.HP unless you - compiled with PCVT_VT220KEY which is described in Doc/Keyboard.VT. Please - note that PCVT_VT220KEYB is not much supported, because i don't use it. - -NOTE 6: -------- - When upgrading from a previous version of the driver, you can remove now - the directory /usr/share/misc/vgafonts. It was moved in release 3.20 to - /usr/share/misc/pcvtfonts. - -NOTE 7: -------- - In case you don't like pcvt's white on red kernel messages, have a look at - the end of pcvt_conf.h, this is the place to change them. - - -WYSIWYG - What You Share Is What You Get --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -PLEASE, if you fix bugs, add features, hack this driver to work on your -hardware or simply don't get it up and running, get in contact with me! - - Help us to avoid reinventing the wheel over and over again! - ----------------------------------------------------------- - -The code is far from being perfect, YOU are very welcome to enhance it ! -Please mail bug reports/fixes, suggestions, enhancements & diffs to - - hm@hcs.de or - hm@altona.hamburg.com - -I will support this driver as my time permits it, feel free to contact me! - -Have fun! - -Hellmuth - - -@home ------ -e-mail: hm@altona.hamburg.com - tel: +49 / 40 / 384298 -s-mail: Eggerstedtstr. 28, 22765 Hamburg, Europe - - -@work ------ -e-mail: hm@hcs.de - tel: +49 / 40 / 55903-170 - fax: +49 / 40 / 5591486 -s-mail: GFKT HCS Computertechnik GmbH, Oldesloer Str. 97-99, - 22457 Hamburg, Europe |
