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From: steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu (Steven Parkes)
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Subject: Re: Tradeoffs between DEC & MIT servers
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Date: 8 Sep 90 15:55:09 GMT
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In article <9009080033.AA20488@xenon.lcs.mit.edu>,
keith@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Keith Packard) writes:

|> The DEC servers for the RISC workstations are faster than MIT R4 for
|> almost all rendering operations; especially with the more recent
|> releases from DEC. 

Related to this, I was wondering if its possible to figure exactly what
/usr/lib/X11/getcons (exec'd by dxsession) does to keep console
messages from being scribbled in the root window.

This information would be useful for two things: 1) to be able to use xdm or
something other that dxsession and 2) to set up a widget for console output
before login so that console messages don't get scribbled into the root in the
period when the login widget (Xprompter, etc.) is active.

Messages can't be read on our monochrome systems (3max) and they are known to
complete confuse the color server (VAXstation 3500) on occasion.

steven parkes ---------------------------------------
University of Illinois Coordinated Science Laboratory
steven@pacific.csl.uiuc.edu -------------------------