in reply to Perl to Video?

You haven't said how you're driving those monitors, but if you can throw X at them, I'd suggest a simple Tk program.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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RE: Re: Perl to Video?
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2000 at 01:56 UTC
    Thanks for your response. Sorry, I should have been more clear. I could probably get away with X, but I was hoping to find a way to drive each video card and write to them with something like a file handle and without X. In a dream world I could use Perl to do something like: tail -f -n 1 /var/log/messages > /dev/video1 tail -f -n 1 /var/log/xferlog > /dev/video2 tail -f -n 1 /var/log/secure > /dev/video3
      It sounds like you can use a regular unix "dumb terminal" to connect to the machine and have the output sent there.

      i'm not an administrator but i'd start searching for tty/pty/getty in the manpages