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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:13:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Haralds  Jakovels <webby@exchange.telekom.lv>
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Subject: RE: ptys
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Haralds  Jakovels wrote:

> Hi,
> >
> >Did you do ./MAKEDEV pty64?
> 
> i guess i didnt make myself clear. yes, there are plenty of pty devices
> in /dev, ptyp?, ptyq? and so on. this is why i wonder, wtf screen and w
> doesnt work. 

Sorry.  I didn't notice that.

Hm, I didn't realize at the time this is for screen.  I'm not well versed
in screen, so I don't know what's going on.

I don't know about your 'w' problems either; my machine did it too for
some time, and fixed itself after I reinstalled.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major