From: ydirson@A2points.A2points.com (Yann Dirson)
Subject: console-tools 1998.04.08 available
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 07:44:50 GMT

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Version 1998.04.08 of the Linux Console Tools has been uploaded to
sunsite, where it should move into /pub/Linux/system/keyboards/.  It
is also available from http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232/

It should also soon be available in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/slink/main/sources/utils/


Here are the release informations:

  This release fixes several bugs about the handling of compressed
 data files.  This compressed-file support has also been extended in
 2 ways: we can read any supported compression format, and supported
 compressors now include bzip2 and lzop (in addition to gzip and 
 compress).

  It includes several new/updated keymap files, thanks to user feedback.


This package is currently under development, use it at your own risks.
However, it should already be a good replacement for `kbd', and you
might like the features not found in the latter, but (as usual) you
have NO WARANTY of any kind.

Some interface-level features are still liable to change (program names,
option names, etc.).

Much work is needed to really get Unicode stuff usable. This will be
my primary goal. It will probably imply hacking the kernel as well for
some features, but the kernel-part is being thoroughly rewritten by
the GGI project, so don't hold you breath...


This package is based on `kbd-0.95', of which it corrects numerous
bugs, and to which it adds several features (compressed PSF fonts,
Screen-font-map fallback tables, 16-bit Application-Charset Maps (also
called "console maps" or "screen maps"), can now output PSF files and
use "-" to read/write most files to stdin/stdout)

I decided to make it a package distinct from `kbd', because I didn't
get at that time feedback from kbd's current maintainer (A. Brouwer)
about my work.  Communication was working at some point, and we plan
to finally merge the two packages, but seems not to work anymore, so...


Please send all bug reports, suggestions, or anything else to myself, (but
take a look at the "TODO" file first), feedback will be greatly appreciated.

Please get in touch with me before starting to modify this package, to
prevent duplicated work; as this code is expected to evolve quite rapidly, it
would also be helpful that not too many persons work on the same pieces of
code at the same time, to ease integration.

Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>

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