Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!snow.white.toronto.edu!cks From: cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 Message-ID: <89Apr20.142242edt.30755@snow.white.toronto.edu> Date: 20 Apr 89 18:22:29 GMT References: <8237@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <17013@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: cks@white.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) Organization: Ziebmef home away from home Lines: 26 In article <17013@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: ... | SPR.... | Incidentally, the `-C' option does not work in xterm either. (It is | listed in the usage error xterm produces, and it is in the manual.) You can get almost the same functionality with 'cat -u /dev/xcons' in a window; you have to remember to kill the cat before killing X11, or your console appears to hang. Some quick hack-work on xterm could probably bring back the -C flag fairly easily. This trick works on X11R2 and X11R3, under Ultrix 2.2 and 3.0 at least and you don't seem to have to install the UWS software first, either. It is possible that the UWS xcons program will also work, assuming it does the same thing. I haven't tested it, since we don't have UWS installed. [trick originally from Stu Grossman , in response to my querry here.] [and why do people give usefull articles distribution usa? there's Ultrix hacks up here in Canada too, you know...] -- "I shall clasp my hands together and bow to the corners of the world." Number Ten Ox, "Bridge of Birds" Chris Siebenmann ...!utgpu!{ncrcan,ontmoh!moore}!ziebmef!cks cks@white.toronto.edu or ...!utgpu!{,csri!}cks