DecWindows (and how to get around them)??

Blair P. Houghton bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Sun Oct 1 04:27:14 AEST 1989


In article <12248 at boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell at boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes:
>Doing this
>	cat -u /dev/xcons
>in what you want to be your console window will grab all of the
>console output to that window.  I was using it in the background for a 
>while and found that it wasn't getting killed when I logged out like the
>other things that that window started up were (twm, xclock, xload), so that 
>I would eventually have a number of them hanging around fighting over the 
>console output.  I haven't looked into that yet.
>
>Let me know what you find out about doing it right.

It still makes the Xqdsg server barf.  I'm really tired of
rebooting, too.

				--Blair
				  "SPR!  SPR!  SPR!
				   Okay, where's all the
				   forms gone to?"



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