This program may be convenient on the QDSS, where you may want a convenient way to get console output into the login window. It is intended to be invoked something like xcons qdcons ttyv0 where "qdcons" is whatever you call the console-redirect device, and "ttyv0" is whatever tty the login window uses. The argument order is "backwards" because it is really intended to be run from init, with an /etc/ttys line of the form: qdcons "/etc/xcons ttyv0" none on This is the way we now have it running on our machines.