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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: TCP/IP, telnet and the RT...
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Date: 15 Nov 89 23:00:33 GMT
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In article <6680@portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:
>Or else the ptys are present, but none are enabled.  Use `devices' to
>turn the `ae' (auto-enable) option on for some of the ptys, so getty
>will listen for logins on them.  Some un-enabled ptys should also be
>present, for outgoing telnet and ftp sessions.

Are you telling me that AIX/RT doesn't use inetd but instead requires
getty to be spawned and waiting on each pty??  Gad.  At least AIX PS/2
gets THAT right.

Why would telnet (or for that matter, ftp) require a pty on outgoing
sessions?  Is this just a speculation of yours or are you relating
the awful truth?

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Steve Dyer
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