Re: Mach console

2000-07-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 03:21:50PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Please, make the patch available, or even better, include that in the > Debian binary. (will do) > I've tried colortext, but some programs seems not to work trought > it. For example, mutt fails, ncurses programs too, and

Re: Mach console

2000-07-27 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 01:00:22PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > I have implemented color and other attributes for the GNU Mach console, > so if people are really dying to see colors on the Hurd, I am willing > to make the patch available. I could even include it in the Debian

Re: Mach console

2000-07-27 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
cter; > > terminal->vga_text_framebuffer [position + 1] = terminal->attribute; > > } > > > > easy, isn't it ? > > yeah, it seems easy, but why nobody has already done this ? > I would try it when I can get all the cvs sources. I have implemented color and other

Re: Mach console

2000-07-27 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 09:53:44PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > If you have 128 MB you can. > With 64 MB minimal minimum. > Oh, I've that amount of ram (128 mb) :) > > But... how should be implemented the color support? > > Do you mean how as C code or how as where ? > > where = > > i

Re: Mach console

2000-07-26 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:59:23PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > > Mach terminal emulator's main task is printing boot-up messages. > > Then, Hurd (userspace) terminal emulator should start. > > It should, but there

Re: Mach console

2000-07-26 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 03:08:20PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > Mach terminal emulator's main task is printing boot-up messages. > Then, Hurd (userspace) terminal emulator should start. > It should, but there is no such thing yet, > look at Kalle's colortext for something that will become o

Re: Mach console

2000-07-26 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 12:56:37PM +0200, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I came with another question, this time about the console. > > Why it's so "poor" ? It doesn't support colors, graphics characters > (those to draw boxes), can't do bold color... > Will these things be implemen

Mach console

2000-07-26 Thread Juli-Manel Merino Vidal
Hi all, I came with another question, this time about the console. Why it's so "poor" ? It doesn't support colors, graphics characters (those to draw boxes), can't do bold color... Will these things be implemented some day ? It is very difficult to implement all of these? Thanks. PS: Sorry cos