Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!tim From: tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: xterm -C in ISC 2.02 Keywords: xterm, ISC, X11 Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 90 15:11:56 GMT References: <2641@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@delluk.uucp (Usenet posting login) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell, UK Lines: 21 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).