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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 1998 05:39:00 -0700 (PDT)
From:      sos@FreeBSD.ORG
To:        smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav)
Cc:        sos@FreeBSD.ORG, nick.hibma@jrc.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Console driver (was: Problems with irq 9(2)?)
Message-ID:  <199807021239.FAA13611@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <rx4lnqc303c.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> from =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag=2DErling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= at "Jul 2, 98 02:32:07 pm"

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In reply to Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav who wrote:
> sos@freebsd.org writes:
> > In reply to Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav who wrote:
> > > sos@freebsd.org writes:
> > > > Second, 256 chars is not enough anyways, so having 252 is just a little worse.
> > > > Third, it was done by "popular demand", so there is use for it.
> > > > Fourth, it was fun doing :)
> > > Well, can it at least be switched off? or should I go stick my head in
> > > a bucket of ice... :)
> > You just dont run vidcontol -m on, thats it ....
> 
> No, I mean, is there any way to use the mouse with a character-
> resolution cursor? e.g. reverse the character it points at, or set the
> background color of that character to red, instead of doing that fancy
> font manipulation.

Maybe if somebody implements it, I'll look it over and commit it (if
deemed OK that is).

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Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team
               So much code to hack -- so little time.

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