Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 08:44:30 +0100 (MET) From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de> To: davidg@Root.COM Cc: scrappy@hub.org, shovey@buffnet.net, huck@slartibartfast.nosc.mil, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pty limit of 64 Message-ID: <199512300744.IAA00580@mordillo> In-Reply-To: <199512292317.PAA02889@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Dec 29, 95 03:17:07 pm
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hasn't David Greenman said ? ...
> >>
> > 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.
>
wouldn'nt it be a good idea to add P-S support to the XFree86 xterm
for FreeBSD - so that the xterm coming with XFree86 may also use these
pty's - i think this should be a simple #ifdef __FreeBSD__ - or am i
wrong ?
t
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