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diff --git a/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/README.FIRST b/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/README.FIRST new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7194a72 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/README.FIRST @@ -0,0 +1,291 @@ +================================================================================ +| | +| 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 |
