From: Lawrence Fan (lawf@base.bellcore.com)
Date: 03/15/93


From: lawf@base.bellcore.com (Lawrence Fan)
Subject: Re: How to get Console window in XFree86 1.2?
Date: 15 Mar 1993 19:51:58 GMT

In article <1nlif9$5d0@news.cs.tu-berlin.de>, wong@cs.tu-berlin.de (Wolfgang Jung) writes:
|> Eric Brown (brown@nebula.ee.rochester.edu) wrote:
|> : How do I get a console xterm in XFree86? I want all output that
|> : normally goes to /dev/console to go to this xterm:
|> : i.e. echo "hi there" > /dev/console
|> : ought to output to that xterm.
|> : xterm -C does not work.
|> There is a Programm called xconsole (which worked for a friend)
|> Gru_
|> Wolfgang

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I have it the other way around. xterm -C works but xconsole started with a message "Cannot open console" in its window. Any idea?

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