extra console/shell

[Per Hedeland]

Kent Boortz <kent@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>Per Hedeland <per@REDACTED> writes:
>> >If my memory serves me right, on Solaris there is a to_erl utility, but I 
>> >think it only allows connecting to the active shell, not create a new one.
>> 
>> Yes, and it's a hack (I wrote the original version:-) that has no real
>> business being included with Solaris, I think.
>
>A hack?! No one told me, to_erl is now ported to Linux and FreeBSD... ;-)

Well, the Unix version of to_erl & Co is actually quite a different
beast than the twenty lines I wrote for VxWorks, so I should neither
take credit for it nor claim that it's a hack:-) - my point was just
that I think it solves a non-problem on Unix, but if people like it /
want it, fine by me...:-)

--Per Hedeland
per@REDACTED