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- From: gpw10@phoenixcd.amdahl.com (Gary Ward)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: Open xterm
- Message-ID: <672s02IJ1eYc01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 04:46:24 GMT
- References: <IeX81Ee00WB8R3NEp6@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
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- In article <IeX81Ee00WB8R3NEp6@andrew.cmu.edu>, tj2n+@andrew.cmu.edu
- (Tao Jiang) writes:
- > Hi, can somebody tell me how I can open more than two xterms?
- >
- > I tried to open the third xterm today, but it complained as:
- > xterm: no available ptys
- >
- > Thanx in advance!
-
- This is a limit compiled into the distribution kernel. In the
- GENERICISA file (/sys/i386/conf/GENERICISA, or whatever you call your
- configuration file) change the line:
-
- psuedo-device pty 4
-
- to
-
- psuedo-device pty
-
- and then rebuild the kernel. I have had more than a dozen xterms up at
- once after this fix.
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