[Freemint-list] Handling of PRGs/APPs which console output

[Peter Slegg]

>Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 01:13:43 +1000
>From: Miro Krop??ek <miro.kropacek at gmail.com>
>Subject: [Freemint-list] Handling of PRGs/APPs which console output
>To: freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
>
>
>After a lot of ideas, workarounds, fix proposals to TosWin2 I've come up
>with this: make it similar to Linux DEs, i.e. offer something as a launcher
>with a property "open in a new console window".
>
>First I thought Teradesk/Thing should provide such functionality but then I
>realised we actually already have such launcher: XAAES' app options.
>
>So my proposal / question is: what do you think of this setup:
>
>   - during the boot, console is normally printed
>   - as soon as XaAES is started, console output is redirected to /dev/null
>   - so every PRG/APP wouldn't print one single letter anywhere
>   - if you have an app for which you do want to see some output, enable in
>   XAAES.CNF a flag called "open_console" (or something similar) which would
>   lead to running the PRG/APP using $TOSRUN (usually TosWin2), with its own
>   console window and output printed there (optionally redirected to a file,
>   using TosWin2's logging option)
>   - as soon as the app in question terminates, its console window is closed

I like the ideas here.

My Milan originally came with a basic Mint-NAES set-up and while I could see why
it had a Toswin2 console, to trap all that TOS/TTP output, it is annoying to
have to have it open on the desktop all the time.

Is there a /dev  device that could receive the output which could be easily
directed to Toswin2 when desired ?

Also, I quite like the way ubuntu programs often have a "show details" option which
opens a console in the app window.

Regards,

Peter