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From: Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Switching vty's from software?
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:47:10 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <199504232227.AAA02772@jette.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 24, 95 00:27:28 am
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In reply to J Wunsch who said
> 
> > 
> > Is there a way to switch vty's from software. If not can it be added.
> 
> ioctl(fd, VT_ACTIVATE, vt_no);
> 
> Note that vt_no is 1-based.

Great.

> 
> Remember, that libforms could also be run off a plain VT100. :-)
> 

libforms isn't quite what it used to be. Wait and see :-) It'll still
run on anything that supports ncurses though.

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