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                David/absolute
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Mark Abene wrote:

> Sure, does it need to be in any particular format?  And who would I submit it
> to?
>
> -Mark
>
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 07:49:50PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	Could you write up an entry for the NetBSD/arc FAQ? :)
> >
> >                 David/absolute
> > 			       -- www.netbsd.org: A pmap for every occasion --
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mark Abene wrote:
> >
> > > I've regained control of the ship!  How I did it will amaze and bewilder...
> > > I decided to carefully read Microsoft's ARC specification document, paying
> > > close attention to chapter 5, "System Console".  Here they say that the
> > > escape codes for the arrow keys, etc., are supported not only by ESC+[
> > > (which loses on the serial console), but also as 0x9b!!  Weird?  Yes.
> > > But it works!  I was able to send 0x9b+0x42 and successfully scrolled down
> > > on a serial console and was able to regain control of the environment vars,
> > > et al.  This should hopefully save on major headaches for Magnum owners.
> > > The best thing to do is either make a simple termcap entry with the modified
> > > escape codes, or use minicom to bind the function key macros to send these
> > > much needed escape sequences.  Next is trying to figure out how to boot without
> > > a keyboard, which it insists on at the moment.  I'm hoping the J4 jumper has
> > > something to do with it, as I couldn't find any settings in ARC to fix this
> > > problem.  I'll keep everyone posted...
> > >
> > > Occupational hazard: serial(0) and serial(1) as expressed in ARC are actually
> > > REVERSED compared to the labelling on the back of the chassis.  Be aware...
> > >
> > > In the next few days, I'll play with getting NetBSD up and running...
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > -Mark
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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