In message <20010607192304.0185FB00B@cvs.netbsd.org>, you write: 

-> Also, query the "ConsoleOut" ARCS variable (i.e. "what the console
-> really is") rather than "console" ("what the console is configured
-> as").

My reading of the IRIX man pages was that `ConsoleOut'/`ConsoleIn' were 
both synthesized from `console' (I think `man prom' said so).  I'm curious
how you got into a state of mismatch... 

Did you set one of `ConsoleIn'/ `ConsoleOut' manually, or is there some way
to override the `console' env var?

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                  rafal@mediaone.net