Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:14:02 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Removing doscmd from the source tree... Message-ID: <200001041914.MAA61066@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 17:08:11 %2B0100." <38721AEB.68D35958@scc.nl> References: <38721AEB.68D35958@scc.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001050225430.3343-100000@alphplex.bde.org>
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In message <38721AEB.68D35958@scc.nl> Marcel Moolenaar writes: : I think it's too system dependent to live in the source tree :-) I don't. It is highly dependent on kernel elements. : From the manpage: : -x Open an X11 window to display output. This enables a variety in- : terrupts not available otherwise. : : Simply compiling with X support also isn't enough, because the default : font (vga) is not present in a default X installation. Ergo: doscmd : won't run in a X window unless you grab a compatible font from the net. Don't need to run with the default font. I've done that *MANY* times. Still works, but you don't get the ibm character set encoding, which isn't that big a deal. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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