I think Andy Doran has been doing a lot of work with rcons - IIRC
	hes pretty busy right now, but if he gets a chance maybe he can
	comment on any possible speedups...

		David/absolute

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On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Neil A. Carson wrote:

> Reinoud Zandijk wrote:
> 
> > so I noticed :-((, but with vt220, my Pine/vi etc work file and most
> > importantly... my cursorkeys work! The only stuff that goes wrong is some
> > ncurses-4 stuff. That'll mess things up... try f.e. ``sniffit -i''... How
> > is `wscons' doing? Is it still under development? I hear so little about
> > it. Would like to help if possible? I can program `C' and assembler quite
> > well, allthough I have the need for feedback-debugging... My
> > Sun-SLC/NetBSD takes that job :-)
> 
> Mark already has some code that him and I wrote for 'glueing' a wscons
> rcons onto a flat mainbus framebuffer. The problem we see with it is
> that the rcons in wscons is appaulingly slow, which is why changeover
> has not yet happened. I heard there was rumor of a faster rcons
> appearing, but I don't know whether or not this actually happened.
> 
> I normally use hjkl for moving around in vi, anyway. If you need real
> terminal emulation, why not just use xterm?
> 
> Given vt100 works, but in a number of different ways vt220 doesn't, I
> would personally be against a change to alter this behaviour.
> 
> The time should be spent trying to turn rcons into something that
> doesn't run like a dog. That's, unfortunately, time that I don't have.
> 
> Does anyone here know if the rcons replacement actually made it?
> 
> 	Neil
>