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From: jak@cetlink.net (John Kelly)
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Subject: What's a pseudo terminal?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:25:34 GMT
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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