Forward: Re: Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

2002-01-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
---BeginMessage--- Yoshinori K Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:40:19 +0100 (MET), Klaus Reichl wrote: If we do a `grub_print_esc' instead of `grub_printf' for ESC sequences, assuming that the terminal will swallow the sequence, and bypassing

Re: Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

2002-01-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
[I added bug-grub to Cc:.] At Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:54:34 +0100 (MET), Klaus Reichl wrote: Do you think it is possible than to code like: if (term-gotoxy /* or term-getxy */) algorithm for terminals with positioning else algorithm for DUMB like terminals instead of term

Re: Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

2002-01-19 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Sat, 19 Jan 2002 00:32:31 +0900, Yoshinori K. Okuji [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll do that. As I already know what's wrong thanks to your report, I don't think it would be difficult to fix the problem. Hmm. I think my estimation was too optimistic again. I know how I should fix the

Re: Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

2002-01-19 Thread Christoph Plattner
Hello ! No at the moment Klaus and I keep the command line interface (this was the status of Thursday). In `emacs' it does not look very good at the moment (especially the amount of `^H' to blank the line, but in emergency cases, `emacs' can be used. You can send amount of `^H' or better a

Re: Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

2002-01-18 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
At Fri, 18 Jan 2002 00:07:12 +0100, Klaus Reichl wrote: I've fixed one annoying situation, where the clear screen behavior during boot depends on the number of characters in ESC sequences sent before. I don't like your patch. It's just a band-aid, not fixing the real problem. In my

Serial Line boot may not properly clear the screen

2002-01-17 Thread Klaus Reichl
Hi serialized GRUBies, For all running GRUB on serial consoles: The AUTO_FILL logic may clobber the screen, when sending ESC sequences. The AUTO_FILL logic simply counts characters sent to the console without taking into account that ESC sequences do not use space on the terminal. I've fixed