In message <87heqgodhj.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
>There was a pcvt option to do something like that, but it died with
>pcvt when we switched to wscons.

That would fit my vague memory - I seem to recall it being around the time
of wscons that I started getting squiggles when I tried to reboot a hung
system.

-s