Cyberclops in a bind

Cyberclops Cyberclops at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Mar 30 21:13:44 PST 2001


Okay that makes sense.  I presume an "xterm" is on of the terminal
windows that I can open up while in KDE or some other GUI.

Ray Strode wrote:
> 
> > 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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