This is the README file for console-tools version 0.3.3.

	---- WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING ---- 

This is a development release, as indicated by the second number in
the version which is an odd one.  Although you may like the features
in there, USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

	---- WARNING - WARNING - WARNING - WARNING ----


You may find more information at:

	http://www.multimania.com/ydirson/en/lct/


This package contains utilities compatible with kernel version 1.1.54
and later.  consolechars(1) requires 1.1.92 or later.

You will find the data files (keymaps, fonts, and unicode tables),
which used to be part of this package, in the console-data package.


To compile, you just need the standard make+gcc+libc suite.  To format
the docs, you'll need sgmltools (formerly linuxdoc-sgml).

It is mainly tested for libc 6.1 (aka glibc 2.1), so there may be
minor problems with libc5, or even libc 6.0.

IMPORTANT NOTE: if you still use libc5, you'll need a recent version.
5.4.33 and above seem to work fine, whereas 5.3.12 is know to have a
bug that causes problems to console-tools.


To install this package:

1) unpack it somewhere

2) invoke "./configure --help" to look at configuration parameters

2) invoke "./configure" with any chosen options

3) "make" and "make install". This copies by default the utilities to
/usr/bin, man pages to /usr/man/man? and data files to the subdirectories
keytables, consolefonts, consoletrans and videomodes of /usr/share/.


Then have a look at the `lct' document, available in the source
distribution as doc/lct.txt.

Optionally, if you have sgmltools v2 installed, you may also run "make
docs" to get an HTML version of the `lct' document, as well as text
and HTML versions of various other SGML files less important to the
end-user.


Report problems with this package to:  Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>.

September 21th, 1999.
