Cyberclops in a bind
Ray Strode
halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Mar 30 18:52:59 PST 2001
> this, I see that I'm still not clear on the difference between a "TTY"
> and a "pts/"x"". The reason I say this is that the "pts/x" is listed in
> the "TTY" column so I presume it is some sort of subset of "TTY" but it
> then makes me hazy about my understanding of a so called "tty."
TTY stands for TeleTYpe. It's a carry over from before monitors were
used (or atleast I think I heard that somewhere). ttys are the local virtual
terminals you get by pressing ctrl-alt-f#. pts is for every other terminal, like
remote logins and xterms and things.
--Ray
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