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From: sitongia@vader.ucar.edu (Leonard Sitongia)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: How do I make a console xterm under Ultrix?
Keywords: TIOCCONS console ultrix DEC
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Date: 16 Jul 89 03:39:27 GMT
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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
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