On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 22:56:55 +0100 (BST) 
 Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com> wrote:

 > Well this comes down to times scales. At the time of porting it was either
 > pcvt or an alpha state wscons with a single vt. Looking at the wscons code
 > it does appear to have come on a lot. I take it it is now considered
 > stable and supports all the pcvt features such as multiple consoles etc.
 > If so then this could be used instead. Also does this mean it is now in a
 > state where by the i386 and bebox can switch to it or are there still some
 > things that need doing ?

I use it with X on my laptop.  Talk to matthias@netbsd.org about the
virtual terminal thing, but it does have them for VT emulation of
Linux programs, etc.

Anyhow, you should NOT port pcvt...

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