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From: Henry Yen <blinux-mail@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: cut and paste between virtual consoles
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 19:37:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021102193745.F20205@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com> (raw)

You can read the contents of a virtual console via the /dev/vcs
interface.  It looks like you can use an IOCTL to emulate the
"writing" of characters to /dev/vcs to emulate the mouse function.

It's probable that the underlying mechanisms have changed in
kernel 2.5/2.6.

On 11/01/02 10:38 AM -0800, Jason Fayre wrote:
> Hello,
> Has anyone figured out any magical way of cutting and pasting between
> virtual consoles in Linux?  I know it is possible with the mouse and it is
> supported by the linux console driver.  But, I don't think there is any
> keyboard equivalent.

-- 
Henry Yen                                       Aegis Information Systems, Inc.
Senior Systems Programmer                       Hicksville, New York




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   ` John J. Boyer
     ` Dave Hunt
   ` Sacha Chua

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