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From: lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Why doesn't xterm -C work?
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.013236.14895@sat.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 01:32:36 GMT
References: <1991Feb16.220545.12333@sat.com> <1991Feb17.225825.5760@eye.com>
Organization: SAT, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1991Feb17.225825.5760@eye.com> paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth) writes:
=In article <1991Feb16.220545.12333@sat.com> lmb@sat.com (Larry Blair) writes:
=>System: 9000/3XX
=>O/S:    7.0
=>
=>According to the HP documentation, the "-C" option to xterm and hpterm
=>should grab output to /dev/console, but the option does not appear to
=>work, even if I start the window as root.  What do I need to do to make
=>this work?
=
=My guess is that you don't have a /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles file.  This little
=gem, which may be mentioned in the hp docs (but I've never found it), tells
=the server who can receive console output and who can't.  If the file isn't
=there nobody gets console output.  Create the file and put a * as the first and
=only character, and you should be ok.

Oh.  How could I miss something so obvious?

Well, I tried it.  Now there's only one problem, namely:

Memory fault - core dumped

I'm running an R4 server, but the 7.0 xterm (probably R3).  Is that the
problem?  Where can I get an R4 xterm?
-- 
Larry Blair   lmb@sat.com   {apple,decwrl}!sat!lmb