On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:43:44AM +0200, Yannick PLASSIARD wrote:
> Hello,
>     I am a blind user of Linux for now, but, for some reasons, I must use a NetBSD system. To do so, I thought about making a port of the BrlTty (http://www.mielke.cc/brltty) to the NetBSD system. The BrlTty program actually runs only on a Linux box. The main problem is that in NetBSD, there is no Virtual Console Screen Access implemented: under Linux, the VCSA interface is used to grab informations from the screen. So, tu make brltty running on the NetBSD system, I have two questions:
> * Is there a way to emulate the Linux VCSA interface on the NetBSD system ?

I think this interface is supported in the linux emulation but I'm not sure.
Maybe you could try to run a linux BrlTty binary on NetBSD in linux emulation ?

> * and how could I create and access a virtual terminal (in a C source)?
> The second sollution could be better because BrlTty would be portable to any UNIX-style system without the need to implement oremulate a VCSA interface.

I don't know for this one. You may be able to find this in the X server
sources.

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