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- From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
- Subject: Re: Stuff in /dev ???
- Message-ID: <tr.712546292@samadams>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 01:31:32 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.182557.15363@mccc.edu>
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- pjh@mccc.edu (P. J. Holsberg) writes:
-
- $ If this is answered in any of the SV/386 R3.2.x manuals, please let me
- $ know, but
-
- $ what are the devices
- $ pts000-pts015?
- $ sxt000-sxt071
- $ xt000-xt007 (these are probably virtual terminals??)
-
- The xt and sxt stuff is used by shell layers which you invoke with the
- "shl" command. It's a way of having more than one session on a single
- connection. It does not keep track of the layout of your screen the
- way "screen" does.
-
- I don't know what the pts stuff is.
- --
- Tom Reingold
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