sitongia@vader.ucar.edu (Leonard Sitongia) (07/16/89)
System: VAXstation 3100 running Ultrix 3.1 and standard X11r3 Sun Microsystems SunOS provides the TIOCCONS ioctl that allows a program to take the console and associate it with a pseudo-terminal so that an xterm can act as the console. After I made X on a VAXstation, console messages appear on the root window, requiring a redisplay to clear the mess away. It must be possible to provide a console xterm-like facility in Ultrix because DEC's X distribution (UWS 2.1) includes a session manager which displays a read-only scrolling console window. Has anyone done this, perhaps with a patch to xterm? Thank you for your time, Leonard -Leonard E. Sitongia System Programmer (303) 497-1509 USPS Mail: High Altitude Observatory P.O. Box 3000 Boulder CO 80307 Internet: sitongia@hao.ucar.edu SPAN: NSFGW::"hao.ucar.edu!sitongia" [NSFGW=9580]
swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (07/18/89)
> System: VAXstation 3100 running Ultrix 3.1 and standard X11r3 > ... > It must be possible to provide a console xterm-like facility in Ultrix Try this... % cat -u /dev/xcons &