From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 29 16:23:01 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA28282 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 16:23:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28243 for ; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 16:22:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA07564; Fri, 29 Dec 1995 19:21:38 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Dec 1995 19:21:36 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-Sender: scrappy@hub.org To: David Greenman cc: steve hovey , Craig Huckabee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pty limit of 64 In-Reply-To: <199512292317.PAA02889@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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...:( Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc