Hi! Does anyone knows what these devices are for? I know that tty[digit] is for virtual consoles and ttyS for serial communications, but what about ttya[0-9], ttya[a-f], ttyb, ttyc, ttyd, ttye, ttyp-z and their counterparts ptya[0-9,a-f], ptyb[0-9,a-f] asf. ? They are not mentioned in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt (well the pty's are in fact mentioned, but I don't understand a word of it :-(), but 'man setconsole(8)' seems to suggest that they are used like ttyS. But why then are there so many of them (more than100) when there are only 4 ttyS devices? Is this a compability issue? Are there any good reasons to keep *all* of them (besides not knowing what will happen if I 'rm' them *grin*)? TIA tom -- "While the NT Testanlage an intensive Tuning experienced by Microsoft specialists, at the Linux version one did not screw." (from Babelfish) Thomas 'Tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] No UCE. No spam. 'nuff said. Questions? Answers! The a.o.l.m.-FAQ at http://aolmfaq.tsx.org
