On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Romain Dolbeau wrote:
> James Simmons wrote:
> > Yes. This is the way the ruby tree handles it. I just got it working in
> > the ruby tree. The only problem is their is some bug in take_over_console
> > I have to chase down but I do have fbcon running using a voodoo 3 along
> > side my MDA. There are 3 functions. One is rectfill which does things like
> > clear the margins etc.
>
> That's a more generalized _clear + _clear_margins ?
Yep, the drawing primitives for a text console are:
- rectangular fill (clear)
- rectangular copy (scroll)
- bitmap expansion (draw characters)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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