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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: X(8c) - /etc/ttys?
Message-ID: <18022@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 17-Oct-87 14:14:48 EDT
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in article <1725@oxtrap.UUCP>, rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) says:
>   ttyv0 "/etc/xterm -L =-1+1 :0" xterm on secure window="/etc/Xvs100 0 -c -l"
...
> No unix system I've seen yet had an /etc/ttys like that!  Is this a
> local hack?  Ultrix?  Undocumented BSD?  (From the Xvs100, my guess is

Ultrix uses this format.  I got the impression from the Ultrix documentation
that this was in 4.3bsd, based on the discussion of "secure" ttys (i.e., ttys
on which the system will allow root to login), but I could well be mistaken.

Mike Khaw
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