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From: dce@mips.UUCP (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: X(8c) - /etc/ttys?
Message-ID: <813@quacky.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 09:52:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: quacky.813
Posted: Tue Oct 20 09:52:09 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 09:46:26 EDT
References: <1725@oxtrap.UUCP>
Reply-To: dce@quacky.UUCP (David Elliott)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <1725@oxtrap.UUCP> rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes:
>What's this stuff about a "typical /etc/ttys line" in X(8c)?
>
>A typical line in /etc/ttys might be:
>
>  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)

This is documented 4.3BSD and later versions of Ultrix.

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David Elliott		dce@mips.com  or  {ames,decwrl,prls}!mips!dce