Does that mean you would have to explicitly render each frame you would
want to write to the terminal?  That sounds VERY slow.  Too slow for
interactive graphics, anyway.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On June 20, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> > Hmmm, now that has some potential.  In the V6 code are drivers for
> > 4014's to do full page nroff and troff graphics output.
> > 
> > Thinking out loud, it might be interesting IFF say groff or TeX
> > output could be handled in 4014 mode on the VAX.  Groff seems to
> > have lost the troff 4014 capability.
> > 
> > I do a lot of troff/TeX stuff, and it would be one-upsmanship kooool
> > if a VT340 could handle the output directly, graphically, rather than
> > xdvi or such.
> > 
> > Hmmm.... I better browse the V6 tree again......(:+}}...
> > 
> > ....
> > 
> > I just did, and a thing called tk.c and another called tcat.c
> > drive nroff or troff cat output to a 4014 mode screen.
> > 
> > Time to see if I can break a VT340.....
> 
>   Hmm...that sounds cool.  I'll bet it wouldn't be too difficult to do
> a DVI viewer for 4014 mode.  That would be quite useful.
> 
>          -Dave McGuire
>