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From: pjb@frame.com (Paul Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Management of '/dev/console' on a computer server for X terminals
Message-ID: <3731@frame.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jun 90 23:24:18 GMT
References: <9006071736.AA16214@sushi>
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Reply-To: pjb@frame.com (Paul Bailey)
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In article <9006071736.AA16214@sushi>, root@convex.UUCP (Superuser) writes:

> 					An example of a program which uses
>     console for input is FrameMaker, which in the case of one or two of its
>     errors outputs a question and expects a response from the user.  
> 
> This is very surprising.  It really uses /dev/console rather than standard
> input?  Thanks for warning me, as we are heavy X terminal users and
> we're starting to use FrameMaker.  You should complain to Frame about
> this.
> 

This is very surprising, because it's not true.

FrameMaker for X11 does not send any messages to the console window. 
FrameMaker 1.3X is 
launched from its own xterm (called fmconsole), and messages are logged
in that window.  
Starting FrameMaker using the -noconsole option causes all messages to
go to the window 
where FrameMaker is started.

Also, FrameMaker never expects any input to any messages displayed in
the xterm.  
FrameMaker only accepts input via dialog boxes.


Paul J. Bailey                  X Projects Group Leader
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