From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 28 17:43:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA22272 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (sdev.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22265 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 17:43:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.2/8.6.9) id MAA10067; Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:42:48 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 12:42:47 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: csubl@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Mr M P Searle) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Terminals crossed over? References: <28228.199611281851@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <28228.199611281851@lupin.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; from Mr M P Searle on Nov 28, 1996 18:51:29 +0000 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Mr M P Searle writes: > Is it possible to cross-over two terminals? > By this I mean have the keyboard of one act as input to the other, > and the second's keyboard act as input to the first. man watch It won't do *exactly* what you may need, but it is very close. This allows one tty to "snoop" on another, and if you feed it the right switches it will also allow the "snooping" tty to enter characters in the input stream. You may have to reconfig your kernel with the "snoop" (snp) device. Regards, David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn