Sorry, -d, not -m. I'm not that familiar with the command line arguments
of mprime. My expertise lies in the symantics of Linux.
One way to pipe to a virtual terminal AND to a file is by using a
combination of a tee and a redirect. Something like:
/usr/src/mprime -d | tee -a /home/GIMPS/tracking.txt > /dev/tty6
-Chuck
> First, wouldn't you want to use mprime -d ? The -m flag simply brings up
> the menu.
>
> Secondly, I used to feed the output to a virtual terminal, but decided that
> having a hard copy that I could periodically check was better. I've been
> piping all the output to a file, such as mprime -d
> >>/home/GIMPS/tracking.txt. When it finishes reporting a result, I delete
> everything but the result and let mprime continue on to the next LL test
> using the same file.
>
> Just my $.02,
> Kel
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