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Date:      Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:25:34 GMT
From:      jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   What's a pseudo terminal?
Message-ID:  <34c353b6.473453@mail.cetlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980113203758.24708n-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:39:35 -0800 (PST), Doug White
<dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> wrote:


>./MAKEDEV pty1
>./MAKEDEV pty2
>...
>./MAKEDEV pty7
>
>Nonintuitve but suddenly you have 255 pty's :-)

./MAKEDEV says pty* is a set of 32 master and slave pseudo terminals.

What is the use and/or purpose of a pseudo terminal?

John






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