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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console? Message-ID: <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <CK9BDx.4nB@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 01:36:39 GMT Lines: 18 In article <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu> cline+@CS.CMU.EDU (Kenneth Cline) writes: >Syscons gives you the ability to switch between different >sessions on your console. Another advantage over pccons >is that it works with X11 (I couldn't get pccons to work >properly with XFree86 (2.0) and FreeBSD (1.0 release), so >I gave up). Yeah, well pccons should be fixed so it can work with XFree86. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X