system/bicon: Added (a Bidirectional Console).

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

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+========
+History
+========
+
+This program, BiCon, has a very entangled history.
+That being said, here is a try on explaining it.
+
+Prologue
+--------
+
+The program is the last in a series on programs to make the
+console support bidirectionality. This has been needed in the
+Arabic, Persian and Hebrew languages among others.
+
+Acon
+----
+Written by Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed, this was the first program
+that enjoyed relatively wide support, as it was distributed in
+Mandrake.
+
+Akka
+----
+The second effort has gone into improving the original acon code
+and giving it vast additional abilities, this was the Akka
+project, in Arabeyes. The Akka project is still there, if
+somebody wants to look at it. Key contributors are Chahine
+Hamila, Mohamed Elzubeir and Samy Al Bahra. It reached the
+version 1.0 beta, but the code is becoming too complicated for
+further enhancements.  Additional information is found in the
+project site, at Arabeyes.
+
+Farsi
+-----
+Taking place more or less parallel to the Akka development,
+Behdad Esfahbod - widely known for his work on FriBidi - wrote
+"farsi", as a tool doing the same job as Akka, more Persian
+oriented.  He adopted the basic joining code from Roozbeh
+Pournader, and borrowed some from script(1), mixed and matched
+with FriBidi and Voila!  The code from script(1) proved to be the
+major stopper for its distribution. More of the story can be
+found in HISTORY.farsi, in this package.
+
+At last: BiCon
+--------------
+The next step in Arabeyes was to base the code on the old farsi
+code. After cleaning up the problematic-licensed code and
+enhancing Arabic support besides Persian, _BiCon_ was there.
+
+Here is the old ChangeLog:
+
+
+2004-January  Behdad Esfahbod <bicon@behdad.org>
+	* *: Well, code is handed to Arabeyes people.  Decided to
+	change the name to "BiCon".  I'm not going to be the
+	maintainer anymore (hopefully).  Already imported to
+	Arabeyes CVS.  These nice people have removed the code
+	borrowed from "script" and replaced with code from Python
+	sources.  We are still to make changes to fit the new
+	system.  Thanks guys.
+
+==========================================================================
+
+2002-06-13  Behdad Esfahbod <farsi@behdad.org>
+	* */*.[ch]: Major changes.  Support many options now, among them is
+	the option to output logical text, not visual.
+
+2002-06-12  Behdad Esfahbod <farsi@behdad.org>
+	* keymap/isiri2901.kmap.gz: Proposed key positions for bidi marks
+	added.
+
+2001-12-14  Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
+	* farsi: Makes the shells current directory to be the same as when
+	user runs the script.
+
+2001-12-05  Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
+	* fcon/fcon.c: Now accepts parameters to run instead of default /bin/sh.
+	* bin/farsi: Pass parameteres to fcon.
+	* bin/farsidict: A small script for dictionary lookup, using farsi.
+
+2001-10-13  Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
+	* */Makefile: Small changes.
+
+2001-10-04  Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
+	* fconsole/Makefile: Set target clean to remove fconsole-config too.
+
+2001-9-22   Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@bamdad.org>
+	* First released under farsidev mailing list.