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From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
Subject: Re: What is advantage of Virtual Console?
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References: <hastyCKDB54.HJn@netcom.com> <1994Jan30.000446.14443@dde.dk> <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 01:26:53 GMT
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In article <2if6nl$pus@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>There are (known) problems with the way pccons and XFree86 interact.
>
>For example, try the 'kill -HUP syslogd.pid' when running pccons and
>watch the console hang.  (This also happens in syscons 1.0, but I
>don't know about pcvt)

I'm sending this follow-up from an xterm on my FreeBSD 1.0.2 system
running pccons and XFree86 2.0.  I read the original article, opened an
xterm on my local machine, ran the commands and no bad things happened.
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