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From: milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Switching from Sun to HP: some general questions
Message-ID: <11959@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 10 Apr 91 18:52:41 GMT
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Reply-To: JEMilburn@lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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kriso@lombard.dartmouth.edu (Kris Olander) writes:


>Yeah, but what about a working Typescript program.  I'm still waiting
>for patchlevel 10 so that our hp9000 340s will be able to handle job
>control, etc., etc...  And it would be nice if Console could intercept
>/dev/console so that I don't get garbage printed out on my X root window.

I don't know what Typescript is, but as for console output, the HP
X server enables capture of console output. Be sure xterm is suid root,
and invoked with the -C option. Works fine for me.

>It may compile easier, but the important question is... does it run?

I've found very little useful PD stuff which does not run properly,
with a minimum of futzing.

-jem
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