03-29-2007
Agree with andryk. We had a couple of out of service N class systems that we used for testing and those almost never had any consoles. We would just plugin a laptop through a serial cable.
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cyr(1) User Manuals cyr(1)
NAME
cyr - setup Cyrillic on Linux console
SYNOPSIS
cyr [ options ]... [ keyboard [ keyboard_options ... ]]
DESCRIPTION
cyr is a program for fast and easy setup of Cyrillic on the Linux console.
OPTIONS
-C, --copyright
Display copying conditions and warranty information.
-h, --help
Display help information and exit.
--save Saves given parametes as default for latter use in ~/.cyr_defaults.
-v, --verbose
Be more verbose.
-s, --style=fontstyle
-f, --size=fontsize
Use the given fontstyle (i.e. fontface) and fontsize. Type cyr --help to see possible fontstyle-fontsize combinations.
--font=fontfile
Use this fontfile. The options -s and -f get ingnored if this option is given. You will use this argument if you want to use font
that is not directly supported by cyr.
-e, --encoding=encoding
Setup the Linux console for this encoding.
--ttys='console1 console2...'
Setup Cyrillic in these consoles.
keyboard
keyboard_options
Use this keyboard and keyboard options.
CONFIGURATION FILE
cyr reads it defaults from ~/.cyr_defaults or (if the former file doesn't exist) from /etc/console-cyrillic.
Lines that contain only spaces or begin with `#' are simply ignored. All other lines should have the form
keyword parameters
Different keywords correspond to different arguments of cyr as follows:
`ttys terminals...' is equivalent to `--tty='terminals...''.
`style fontstyle' is equivalent to `--style=fontstyle'.
`size fontsize' is equivalent to `--size=fontsize'.
`encoding enc' is equivalent to `--encoding=enc'.
`fontfile fntfile' is equivalent ot `--font=fntfile'.
`layout kbd' specifies kbd as default keyboard to use.
`options opt...' specifies opt as default keyboard options.
AUTHOR
Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>, <zinoviev@debian.org>
console-cyrillic JUN 2002 cyr(1)