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- From: why@bnr.ca (Graeme Boyd)
- Subject: Re: xterm -C
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.113709.27317@bcrka451.bnr.ca>
- Originator: why@bcrks197
- Sender: 5E00 Corkstown News Server
- Reply-To: why@bnr.ca (Graeme Boyd)
- Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 11:37:09 GMT
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- > Maybe I'm crazy, but xterm -C (and finxterm, as well) doesn't seem to pay
- > ANY attention to the ownership of /dev/console, despite what its man page
- > says. This is a REAL problem. Anyone out there notice this? have a
- > suggestion? Anything?
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- I found the same thing in X11R5 (it worked ok in X11R4). My workaround
- was to use "xconsole". Not as nice as having a "xterm" but ....
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- Graeme Boyd B.N.R. Ltd
- why@bnr.ca Ottawa, Canada
- Perrussel's Law
- There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.
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- My thoughs, My words -- Let BNR make its own mistakes.
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