hello monks i would like to find out if there are any perl modules for separatly controlling two different monitors linked to a dual monitor video card we currently have a system where a program entirely written in C controls one monitor through STDOUT and an old style terminal through the serial port (pretty old school i know but we only need to send text to the serial port) our system works fine and has done for years but it has occured to us that one of these days the old terminal is going to give up the ghost and its going to be pretty hard to find a replacement (we have one fairly flaky spare) so we figured that if there is a way to separatly control dual monitors from perl sending the STDOUT to one and our other text to the other we could imbed the perl interpreter in our original C and future proof our archaic system! is this even vaguely a good idea? possible? is it really that easy to embed perl in C? i don't know enough about perl to answer any of these questions but would like to know

In reply to contolling two screens by Anonymous Monk

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