Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 19:38:09 +1000 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How many virtual ttys? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004231934500.57283-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> In-Reply-To: <3904b414.7406636@relay.skynet.be>
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On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Bart Lateur wrote: > I assume that getty is only necessary for the physical keyboard, not for > external logins. Is that right? Its not needed for pseudo terminals but you need it for physical ones, be that the keyboard or serial terminals. > Oh. I had assumed a mechanism as was used on the Atari ST, where you had > to press one of the special keys (either shift or control, I forgot) > together with the function key. Press shift+F1 and you get F11 (assuming > 10 physical keys). Yes you can do that under FreeBSD. The extra key is shift. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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