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From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console?
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References: <CK9BDx.4nB@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> <CKB7KC.49H.3@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 1994 01:36:39 GMT
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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



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