Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!hardy From: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Why doesn't xterm -C work? Message-ID: Date: 11 May 91 17:27:46 GMT References: <1991Feb16.220545.12333@sat.com> Organization: U.C.Irvine, Dept. of Physics Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: golem.ps.uci.edu In-reply-to: lmb@sat.com's message of 16 Feb 91 22:05:45 GMT 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? Do you have a file /usr/lib/X11/Xconsoles with the entry * ? That may be the cause of your problem. Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET