What kind of computer are we talking about (desktop PC or mac? rackmount server? laptop? smartphone?)? What operating system (windows? mac? linux? ios? android?)?

The big problem here is that, in general, since one of the tasks of the reboot is to create references to all of the various devices that are hooked up and then start all of the various background services that your system needs to have running in order to be "up", the display on which any such terminal window might appear won't necessarily exist yet (and if it's a rackmount server, never actually will). Most likely the best you're ever going to be able to do is have your program write a file somewhere for later consumption.

And then, most likely, you won't want any windows appearing showing that file until/unless you log in (after the reboot is complete), at which point the question is then how you're actually logging in, which will most likely then indicate the best way of getting something to automatically start up that will display the file that your program has produced (or is producing), i.e., if your program has indeed run and produced any file at all, which it might not have.

In reply to Re: Getting output to terminal by wrog
in thread Getting output to terminal by rkrasowski

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