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Date:      Fri, 29 Dec 1995 19:21:36 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
Cc:        steve hovey <shovey@buffnet.net>, Craig Huckabee <huck@slartibartfast.nosc.mil>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pty limit of 64 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951229192048.7547B-100000@hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <199512292317.PAA02889@corbin.Root.COM>

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On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote:

> >On Fri, 29 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote:
> >
> >>    As for ptys, 32 units are fully supported for each of ttyp, q, r, and s,
> >>and if you're not using xterms, another 32 ptys each are supported for P, Q, R,
> >> and S...for a total of 256 ptys.
> >> 
> >	Okay, simple question...is there a way of telling xterms to use
> >particular ptys, namely those in the ttyP+ range?  Freeing up the 128 from
> >p-s?
> 
>    The problem is that xterm as written does not know about P-S. It only knows
> about p-s. There's no way to work around this except by modifying the xterm
> source to teach it about P-S.
>
	Ack, sorry about that...I misread your original...I thought it said 
'if you're using...', totally blinded to the 'not' part of it.  Sincerest
apologies...:(

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