From: kjb@cgl.citri.edu.au (Kendall Bennett) Subject: Re: Can you access a virtual console directly? Date: 16 Sep 1992 10:51:48 GMT
wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius) writes:
>How do you know it will be used on virtual consoles only? How do you
>know what kind of virtual console it is? Is it VGA, CGA, XGA, Hercules,
>something else? If you happen to know it is VGA, do you know it is
>80x25? 80x50? 80x43? 100x40? 100x32? 132x25? 132x44? 40x25? Some
>dimensions you've never even heard of? Do you even know that it will run
>on Linux? Do you _really_ want to fall into the MS-DOS trap of having a
>special driver for each and every piece of hardware that the program is
>supposed to run on, instead of using the driver that already exists in
>the operating system?
Well, someone has to do it right? How does curses handle this. It is
a normal C library that handles this sort of stuff for you, so surely
you can get the same info that curses uses and figure it out from there.
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