This is release 1998.06.03 of the Linux console-tools.

  It features command-line capabilities to deal with the G0/G1 tty
 charsets.  It is mostly in sync with kbd 0.96a (features the extended
 syntax and new hierarchy for keymaps introduced in kbd 0.96, the
 additionnal bugfixes and new command-line options, apart from "showkey
 -a", which somehow duplicates our "showkey -k").  Latin5 users can now
 use symbolic names for their specific characters.  Several bugs were
 also fixed; probably some new ones were introduced.

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

  The stable features in console-tools will now start to be merged
 into kbd.  The future of console-tools will probably be somewhat like
 a playground for new very experimental features.


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 up to date with 0.96a, of
which it corrects some 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)


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>
