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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: DecWindows (and how to get around them)??
Message-ID: <4405@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 30 Sep 89 18:27:14 GMT
References: <1989Sep30.143118.15880@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <12248@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <12248@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@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?"