From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 6 23:23:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16547 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sag.space.lockheed.com (sag.space.lockheed.com [192.68.162.134]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA16542 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by sag.space.lockheed.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/21Nov95-0423PM) id AA29506; Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:18 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1996 23:23:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian N. Handy" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Jim Dennis , sandips@worldnet.att.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General problems In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > What's the easiest, least painful, way to get these FreeBSD > > boxes to recognize my Linux console (termcap and terminfo) > > with full support for my function keys, full ncurses color support > > and the whole nine-yards? > > Why would you want to get the function keys? You have programs that use > those in text mode? I don't know of any UNIX programs that use them. > (Probably Emacs) Yes! I've got several guys that actually want to be able to use DEC keyboards on their PC's! I taunted them at first, but some of these guys have really engrained the DEC numerical keypad into their brains. I would LOVE to figure out how to make this work. I'd rather be able to do it with syscons. I *think* pcvt can do this but I'm not quite sure and I haven't had time to wade through setting it up yet to see. Sigh. Brian