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Subject: not able to output anything to /dev/ttyv8?
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Dear list

On Gentoo Linux I used to redirect the output of a certain app
to /dev/tty10 and switch to tty10 (by using Alt+F10)

this is useful to keep watching the application.

this doesn't work on FreeBSD. I can do
# ehco hello > /dev/ttyv8
# ehco hello > /dev/ttyv9
# ehco hello > /dev/ttyva

But Alt+F9, Alt+F10, Alt+F11 only cause the machine to beep

Possible to use /dev/ttyv9 for output device in FreeBSD? Thanks in
advance.

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