This is release 1999.03.02 of the Linux console-tools.

  This is a maintainance release for 1999.02.28, which would not
compile out-of-the-box, and includes a couple of keymap fixes as well.

  New features in 1999.02.28 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,
 and to the growing gap between the Console Tools and kbd. 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 <dirson@debian.org>
