Could you write up an entry for the NetBSD/arc FAQ? :)

                David/absolute
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mark Abene wrote:

> I've regained control of the ship!  How I did it will amaze and bewilder...
> I decided to carefully read Microsoft's ARC specification document, paying
> close attention to chapter 5, "System Console".  Here they say that the
> escape codes for the arrow keys, etc., are supported not only by ESC+[
> (which loses on the serial console), but also as 0x9b!!  Weird?  Yes.
> But it works!  I was able to send 0x9b+0x42 and successfully scrolled down
> on a serial console and was able to regain control of the environment vars,
> et al.  This should hopefully save on major headaches for Magnum owners.
> The best thing to do is either make a simple termcap entry with the modified
> escape codes, or use minicom to bind the function key macros to send these
> much needed escape sequences.  Next is trying to figure out how to boot without
> a keyboard, which it insists on at the moment.  I'm hoping the J4 jumper has
> something to do with it, as I couldn't find any settings in ARC to fix this
> problem.  I'll keep everyone posted...
> 
> Occupational hazard: serial(0) and serial(1) as expressed in ARC are actually
> REVERSED compared to the labelling on the back of the chassis.  Be aware...
> 
> In the next few days, I'll play with getting NetBSD up and running...
> 
> Cheers,
> -Mark
> 
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