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From: pritch@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Norman Pritchett)
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Subject: Re: RE Virtual Terminals
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 11:21:37 EST
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In article <861027150624.300579@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Bach@DOCKMASTER.ARPA (Bud Bach) writes:
>Beware!  Virtual Terminals are great, but some user programs may
>get broken.  The problem is virtual terminal names look like VTnnnn
>where physical terminal names look like Tlnn.  If you expect the
>terminal name to be 4 or 5 characters, you can have problems.
>
>Bud Bach
>bach@docmaster.arpa

If those user programs had heeded the warnings of the version 3.x
documentation about future sizes of device names that shouldn't have been a
problem.