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Subject: Re: xterm can't find ttyp[g-v]
From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
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 * Should have mentioned I did "sh MAKEDEV pty1" (which will make the
 * ttyq* devices) and it doesn't work either.  I'm not sure if this is
 * because the kernel has only 32 pty's and all of them are taken by
 * ttyp*'s.

Just to follow up on my own post, the following patch to xterm fixed
it:

=====
--- ./ptyx.h.org	Mon Aug 15 12:48:46 1994
+++ ./ptyx.h	Tue May  2 22:54:12 1995
@@ -91,7 +91,11 @@
 #ifdef hpux
 #define	PTYCHAR2	"fedcba9876543210"
 #else	/* !hpux */
+#ifdef __FreeBSD__
+#define	PTYCHAR2	"0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv"
+#else	/* !__FreeBSD__ */
 #define	PTYCHAR2	"0123456789abcdef"
+#endif	/* !__FreeBSD__ */
 #endif	/* !hpux */
 #endif	/* !PTYCHAR2 */
 
=====

Rich, can you please give this back to the XFree86 people?

Satoshi