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- pty - run a program under a pty session
-
- pty is meant as the sole interface between pseudo-terminals and the rest
- of the system. Some features: improved security; over fifty options for
- precise control; session disconnecting and reconnecting; full efficiency
- after a reconnect; a gradual upgrade path so that all your old utilities
- will work without change; support for applications that need full pty
- control; and a reasonably smart install script. Also in this package are
- twenty-one utilities, including a ``script'' that actually works.
-
- pty has been thoroughly tested on several BSD 4.3-based machines and
- tested on several BSD 4.2-based machines. It should be easy to port to
- any system supporting pseudo-terminals and UNIX-domain sockets. If you
- know any application of ptys that this program can't handle, or if you
- have a different machine that would benefit from the modularity and
- power of a pty port, please let the author know.
-
- pty version 3.0, June 1, 1990.
- Copyright (c) 1990, Daniel J. Bernstein.
- All rights reserved.
-
- This distribution packaged June 11, 1990.
-
- General layout:
- CHANGES Description of changes since first distributed version
- COPYRIGHT A comprehensible copyright notice
- INSTALL A script to guide you through compilation and installation
- MANIFEST Shipping list
- README This document
- TESTS A script to guide you through some tests
- Makefile Installation commands
- *.c Programs
- *.h Header files
- pty.man Documentation
- patch/* Patches to other programs to better use pty
- util/* Utilities
-
- Before you do anything else, run the INSTALL script. It'll guide you
- through compiling and installing pty and the utilities. Then run TESTS
- to exercise a few of pty's features on your system. patch/ is separate;
- read patch/README at your leisure.
-
- Read CHANGES for a list of changes. pty -C and pty -W give copyright and
- warranty information; pty -H prints a help screen.
-