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- From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Virtual Terminal SV/386 R3.2.2
- Message-ID: <tr.712204038@samadams>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 02:27:18 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.022754.6090@mccc.edu>
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- pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
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- $ /etc/inittab starts /etc/vtgetty console console.
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- $ Is it possible to run /etc/vtgetty for any other port? If so, how? I
- $ looked at TFM but ...
-
- What sort of port were you hoping to run virtual terminals from? I am
- fairly certain that they use a device driver that directly read the
- keyboard and write to the video buffer. This would not work over a tty
- port. If you want that sort of thing, run "screen" which has some
- features over vtlmgr anyway.
- --
- Tom Reingold
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