Re: [Geekos-devel] user mode works again

[David H. <da...@cs...>]

Hi Harry,

I think eventually we should implement a terminal driver (emulating
something like a VT100) built on top of the existing screen and
keyboard support.  Then user programs could communicate with it
via escape sequences.  Or, as you mention, we could do this at
the user library level.

Note that all new development in GeekOS is being done on an
experimental version, details at
  http://geekos.sourceforge.net/docs/experimental.html

Right now there are no file releases for the experimental version,
but it is available through anonymous CVS.

-Dave

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 04:00:23AM -0600, Harry Glinos wrote:
> So far the OS seems pretty neat. I have gotten it to run on my labtap
> (more details on forums on sourceforge) and I would like to extend some
> of the features a little. I was messing around with the keyboard driver
> and I was able to have it delete characters already on the screen.
> After I finished that, I noticed that the driver would be a bad place
> to get the backspace to do its thing. Think that the Read_line function
> in libuser.c (i think that is where it is at needs to be changed to
> accomodate backspace functionality). I wanted to make a small little
> command line program for it with some built in built in commands. Do do
> that, the libuser.c needs to be fixed. I don't think it would be that
> hard to take the code that I put in my copy of keyboard.c and move it
> into libuser.c. Maybe while I'm at it, I could add some new functions
> to it too.