[ale] Sharing dumb terminal display

[Geoffrey Myers]

Brad Dixon wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm considering getting a vt100 dumb terminal for use as some extra
> display space for textual information. I'm aware that I can use the
> terminal's keyboard to control the terminal. What I would really like to
> be able to do, however, is hide it's keyboard and control it from my main
> keyboard.
>
> Is it possible to share keyboard control of the terminal tty with another
> keyboard? Maybe somehow with virtual terminals?

I don't know how elaborate you want to get with this, but I just played
around with a few things.  For example, in one of my xterm windows I typed:

exec > /dev/tty2

Now the output of the window goes to /dev/tty2.  I did the same thing between
two virtual terminals.  Now you can have a script or program do the same
thing, that is redirect the standard out to another tty.  Stderr works to,
although I did not try standard is, and this sounds like what you really
want. Maybe this will get someone else's creative juices flowing...

>
>
> The point of this whole endevour is I want the display space but don't
> really want another keyboard cluttering the area.
>
> Brad
>
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> Brad Dixon
> Georgia Tech Research Institute -- Atlanta, GA
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