Re: [MiNT] xconout2.xdd docs

[Oddie Jonathan <oddie@bvsd.k12.co.us>]

Hello again,

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>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:
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>It is the one by TeSche.
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[snip]
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>I sort of tried that:
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>	bash$ cat /dev/console >/tmp/mylog
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>But cat exits immediately (probably because no data is available).  OK,

I think the program reading it needs to use select() as neither read nor write
will ever block, and I suppose cat doesn't do this... Anyway, I've sent you the
README file that I found for it, which might be a bit more help.

>I'll try it with a program wrapper.  My intention is to loge MiNT
>debugging output to a file.
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>> Is that any help to you?
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>Yes, thanks, I will try that.
>

ttfn
Jonathan