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From: dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: /dev/console on SCO UNIX
Message-ID: <1991PMSun.13.24375@atomica.fi>
Date: 13 Jan 91 23:36:21 GMT
References: <1991AMSat.12.4222@atomica.fi> <1991Jan12.221537.27185@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: Oy Atomica Ab, ESBO, FINLAND
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allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes:

>As quoted from <1991AMSat.12.4222@atomica.fi> by dag@atomica.fi (Dag Nygren):
>+---------------
>| Anybody out there succeeded in mapping the console to another device
>| in SCO UNIX, for example an to apply to xconsole? It is a bit of a
>| problem with the console messages messing up the X-window screen.
>+---------------

>The Xenix port of MGR opens /dev/error and issues an ioctl() on it so that it
>will get SIGUSR1 when a kernel message is generated; it then reads /dev/error
>and displays it in the "console" window.  I left this as is in my port to SCO
>UNIX, and it does in fact work.  Most likely, this is documented under the
>"error" device.

	Thanks, I will try that, but does it really prevent (disable) the 
	writing of the messages to the screen ??...... OK, I will try it....

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