Command Line Interfaces

[Pete Holsberg]

Mario Vukelic pounded out the following on his or her keyboard on 
10/5/2007 2:57 PM:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:37 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
>   
>> I don't recall seeing anything like console-tools under AT&T Unix or
>> Solaris. We had VT-xxx terminals (or PCs with terminal emulators) and
>> it was very simple to configure them.
>>     
>
> That's what I was saying, or tried to. The tools have changed.
>   
>> For example, I get one screen resolution when I boot into recovery
>> mode and a completely different one when I "three-finger" to a
>> console. What I'm seeking is a way to get the same screen resolution
>> (the recovery mode one) for both.
>>     
>
> Ok, I understand that. Sorry, cannot help here since I haven't
> configured a console in ages. The other reply you received when you said
> "pretend I'm a Unix Geek ;)" was, "RTFM". I think that was pretty apt. I
> realize that the documentation directory has changed, so here it
> is: /usr/share/doc/console-tools
> It should get you started and even has examples.

It's quite interesting yet puzzling. I tried the commands in 
README.strange-name while logged in via SSH (is that a terminal or a 
console?) and they had no effect. In particular,

linux [pjh] doc/console-tools/examples> consolechars --default-font

Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console

get_console_fd: Invalid argument

linux [pjh] doc/console-tools/examples> 


Thanks.
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