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From: mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: TIOCCONS ioctl under sunos: does ultrix have something similar?
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Date: 13 Jun 91 19:37:52 GMT
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In-Reply-To: lfs@d62iggy.mitre.org's message of 13 Jun 91 14:01:23 GMT


The quick workaround is to start an xterm as follows:

xterm -e cat /dev/xcons

If /dev/xcons is open, console output is made available for reading
from it, rather than being printed to the graphics console.   A
different way of doing things than on a Sun, but reasonably effective.

This is discussed in more detail in the Ultrix 4.2 release notes.

			       _MelloN_