On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 10:59:16PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> >I don't know about VW, but it works fine on Windows with Squeak(*).
> >Standard output goes to the console, so you can open a console and
> >write to standard output. The console conveniently displays itself
> >in a separate window, and behaves more or less as you might expect.
> >The console window can be opened and closed as needed.
> 
> But what would be the point of that? The main use of stdout and stdin 
> lies in the ability of doing I/O redirection. Creating new consoles 
> (which is admittedly trivial) is not helping with that.

It makes a nice alternative to the Transcript for debugging multiple
processes. Otherwise I have not found any use for it.

Dave