On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 Lawson Whitney wrote:
> Maybe you are not old enough to remember the BSD pseudo-tty devices.
> They were used before Unix98 when you want a device that behaves
> like a terminal as far as the program is concerned, but operates
> under control of another program. script used them, xterms used
> them, telnetd uesd them... all of these now use the Unix98 ttys in
> /dev/pts/ if that's available, so I guess they are on their way to
> being obsolete.
Don't look now, Linux has them too. They are /dev/pty[a-z][0-f].
They are used by ppp, slip, X11 and elsewhere.
vern
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