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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: monochrome, vga monitor on same machine
Message-ID: <316@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 90 21:33:51 GMT
References: <1990Apr12.192539.2984@jdyx.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
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Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <1990Apr12.192539.2984@jdyx.UUCP> tpf@jdyx.UUCP (Tom Friedel) writes:
}Has anyone succesfully attatched a monochrome and vga monitor to
}a SCO Unix or Xenix machine, with the idea of being able to display
}output to either both monitors simultenously, or less optimistically
}switch between monitors.
}
}The SWAPMONO and SWAPVGA ioctl's appear to be there for that purpose,
}but I can't get them to work.
}

Yes, it works fine.

I usually run 80x43 on screens 1-8 and mono on 9-12. 

One nice touch is that even though you can have only one screen active (i.e.
have the keyboard associated with it) output will continue to be displayed
as it is received on the on screen as well. So you can (for example) run a
tail -f /usr/spool/uucp/.Admin/xferstats on the mono and continue to work on
the vga. 


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