From: Kenneth Falck (kennu@mits.mdata.fi)
Date: 09/14/92 

From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
Subject: Can you access a virtual console directly?
Date: 14 Sep 1992 16:47:29 GMT

Can you access a linux virtual console directly, something like what
you usually do with MSDOS when writing characters and attributes to
B800:xxxx?

I think it might be useful for writing a terminal program that would
be a bit more sophisticated than kermit or XComm. It feels a bit
dumb to use termcap-codes to handle the local output, if you know
you'll be using this terminal from the virtual consoles only.

I thought I might ask for advice, since if I succeed in writing a
terminal program, I don't want it to break with the next kernel
release because of using some odd non-fixed memory address or
something...

Thanks, 

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