fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) (08/01/90)
I know, this probably had been asked already, but unfortunately it's not in the frequently asked questions: I tried to run a CONSOLE Xterm with xterm -C. It fails with the message "bad command line option", usage: bla bla -C bla bla. Is -C not supported by ISC's xterm? Thanks Fritz
tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) (08/02/90)
In <2641@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) writes: ... >I tried to run a CONSOLE Xterm with xterm -C. >It fails with the message "bad command line option", usage: bla bla -C bla bla. >Is -C not supported by ISC's xterm? Correct. It would be impossible to do so. This is a SunOSism. There is an ioctl, I forget exactly what it is called (TIOCGCONS or some such) to allow console output to be grabbed and redirected onto another file descriptor. This is unavailable under SVR3.2 and ISC didn't put it in. Kind of a shame, but it's hardly a really important feature - you could get partial emulation by adding 'Operating System Messages' i.e. osm, and running 'cat /dev/osm &' in your "console window". Tim -- Tim Wright, Unix Support | Email: ...!ukc!delluk!tim Dell Computer Corp. (UK), Bracknell | (pending domain registration).