Re: [MiNT] libs...

[Martin-Eric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.com>]

> > Which brings us back to the initial point:  
> > we need stv52 to become real VT100 to avoid having to deal with un-
> > cooperative admins.  
> 
> I agree. (Actually, it would be VT102, but that's a superset. <g>) 

;-)))

> > Let's face it:  MiNT is probably the only platform on this planet that has 
> > _no_ VT100 emulation; everybody and their mom has VT100, so basically, people 
> > never have to play nicie to their admin. Why should we?
> 
> Fair enough. The windowing stuff looks like it might be, uh, interesting to 
> implement, but I can see vt100 or 102 making an ncurses-based package a little 
> quicker. Who knows, maybe even vim will run at a usable speed. ;)

Check out the latest ncurses port by Petr Stehlik at:

http://users.zln.cz/~pstehlik/soft.htm#mint

> I'm also concerned about two other things: The fatal error on shutdown... IMO 
> as least partly the AES's fault... what the *hell* does it do to the tty?!... I 
> think the error is connected in some way to the problems with the console tty 
> caused when N.aes is started as a login shell

Mine is started straight in ttytab, directly.  No shell.

> Er, just one thing; where's the terminfo compiler? Is it included in
> kgmd, because I'm having trouble finding it...?

Comes with the aforementioned ncurses port, I beleive.

Btw, you might also be able to lift some vt100 code from the Screen
port we have on MiNT as well.

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