Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!umich!umeecs!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!rathe!ian From: ian@rathe.cs.umn.edu (Ian Hogg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Re: Why doesn't xterm -C work? Message-ID: <1991May17.160436.8720@rathe.cs.umn.edu> Date: 17 May 91 16:04:36 GMT References: <101950218@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com> Organization: Rathe, Inc. Lines: 23 I've seen various people with questions about having xterm, hpterm take over the system console. I urge people to take a look at xconsole from the MIT contrib directory. I like it alot better because because it just presents console output in an list widget that you can scroll through. It normally is unmapped but maps itself when it receives output on the console. You can't miss it because it doesn't look like other applications. I found that using xterm/hpterm sometimes I didn't notice a message that was sent to the console. I wrote a simple lp interface for postscript printer, that read messages back from the printer. These messages were sent to /dev/console, and as a result the things like "Paper Out", etc. popped up the display. This allowed the paper to be replaced immediately instead of when someone happened to go to the printer to pick something up. I do remember having to do a little bit of work to get it running on HP-UX. And of course it uses Athena widgets. As always, I switched jobs so I don't have ready access to the changes I made but maybe I can get someone to mail me the source code and perhaps a series 300 binary. -- Ian Hogg email: rathe!ian@cs.umn.edu ...!umn-cs!rathe!ian Rathe, Inc ianhogg@cs.umn.edu 366 Jackson Street phone: (612) 225-1401