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From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon)
Subject: contool - Anybody managed to get it working?
Organization: SeeWare Software
Message-ID: <DEM44q.2zq@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 00:31:38 GMT
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Hi!

Is there anybody out there who has managed to get contool working??  I grabbed
the source, fixed up some problems with regex but now I can't manage to get
it to work.

My problem is that it refuses to open /dev/console.

The relevant code is:-

    if (ioctl(fileno(slave), TIOCCONS, NULL) == -1)
	      abend("%s: could not attach to /dev/console", program); 

Should this code work?  I can't find any documentation on the TIOCCONS ioctl.

If it is important I am running XFree 3.1.1 using xdm, and FreeBSD 2.0.5.

Rgds,Mark



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