loft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

> I am student and have to explain how a virtual functions, how a software 
> could be designed so that a programm would print output to a virtual terminal.

Do you mean the virtual consoles which you can flip between with Alt-F2
and so on?

If so, these are just device files -- /dev/tty1, /dev/tty2, etc.

As root, try something like this:

  echo hello, world >/dev/tty6

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