In article <Pine.HPX.4.05.9905281200340.8153-100000@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de>,
	Stefan Sichler <sichler@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de> writes:
> I got the same trash on the screen when a floppy disk read error occured, 
> so it seems you've got to dig in the kernel for the error. 

That's not a kernel error. You don't start a program to catch console
output use either "xterm -C" or "xconsole" to do so.

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/