There are several shared libraries installed by the Linux Console Tools. They were
at first meant just to share code betwwen the various utilities
(kbd has lots of duplicated code), but they could be used as a
base to build new tools.
However, they are not yet ready for production use (hence the version
number 0.0.0), and are absolutely not complete nor coherent at the
time.
Here is a summary of what they are meant to become:
is meant to provide a high-level interface to console-font
file-handling. It also exports the lower-level functions used to
construct higher-level ones.
It only supports for now some low- to medium-level functions that ease
writing programs, but I hope to make it a lot more than that,
especially with the coming of the XPSF file-format (see
doc/font-formats/xpsf.draft for details).
As of release 1998.08.11, implementation of higher-level interface has
just started.
is a collection of misc utility functions for use by the 2 other libs
and by the tools. I hope most this stuff will one day make its way to
an existing general purpose utility-library. Any offers welcomed.