Version 1999.02.28 of the Linux Console Tools is now available from http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/soft/lct/. It has also been uploaded to metalab, where it should soon move into /pub/Linux/system/keyboards/. Here are the release informations: This is release 1999.02.28 of the Linux console-tools. New features include code i18n, the openvt(1) program, several features introduced by kbd 0.97, more consistency with GNU tools, and several important bug fixes. It includes many new/updated keymap files, thanks to user feedback. PLEASE NOTE that this release has not yet support for the CP fontfile format back yet. Expect it to be back in the next release. PLEASE NOTE also that the www site for the Linux Console Tools has changed since last release. It is now: http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/ The project of merging stable features of console-tools into kbd is on hold, due to the lack of technical cooperation from kbd's maintainer. I am not any more willing to work on this merge myself. 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-0.94', and is mostly up to date with 0.97, of which it corrects some bugs, and to which it adds several features (Message i18n, 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, can make use of the G1 charset slot, etc.). 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 - it's enough work to keep in sync with new kbd releases until we merge; 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 -- Yann Dirson | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | Check