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Re: [MiNT] TosWin2 "Open console...at output"




> With a multitasking environment such as FreeMiNT+XaAES, sending text to
> the console is not a good thing. Even with FreeMiNT, the default console
> is handled by the BIOS in full screen. With standard hardware, the VDI
> and the BIOS console share the same screen memory. When both are used at
> the same time, this produces screen corruption (text printed over
> graphics, etc.).  With special VDI drivers (ARAnyM+fVDI, maybe some
> graphics cards...), the BIOS console output is not displayed at all.
> This is why TosWin2 has the Console window. Combined to xconout2.xdd
> support, it allows to redirect the text sent to the BIOS console into
> the Console window. This is cleaner, and works with any graphics card.

Alternatively the output could be redirected to /dev/null, couldn't it?

No, console should never be redirected to /dev/null (at least, not by default).

TosWin2 should catch all console output, whenever console window is open or not. The obvious quick hack to do this is having its window always open and hide/unhide it when user wants to open/close it.


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Adam Klobukowski
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