Re: [MiNT] xconout2.xdd docs

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

Hi!

On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 09:53:52PM -0600, Oddie Jonathan wrote:
> >Hi!
> 
> >I have installed xconout2.xdd from my broken harddisk and now I wonder how
> >it works.  Could somebody send me the documentation because that was
> >stored on a bad sector.
> 
> I'm not sure if the program you have is the same  `xconout2.xdd' that Torsten
> Scherer wrote (and which comes with W,) but if so:

It is the one by TeSche.

> If a program opens /dev/xconout2, all output to the console is buffered rather
> than being displayed on the screen; the program can then read from 
> /dev/xconout2 to read the buffered output. You can therefore use it for 
> emulating the physical console in a graphical terminal emulator without fear
> of destroying your screen... (it works of course by replacing the xconout[2]
> vector)

I sort of tried that:

	bash$ cat /dev/console >/tmp/mylog

But cat exits immediately (probably because no data is available).  OK,
I'll try it with a program wrapper.  My intention is to loge MiNT
debugging output to a file.

> Is that any help to you?

Yes, thanks, I will try that.

Ciao

Guido
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