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From: todd@CINCOM.UMD.EDU ("TODD AVEN")
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: re: Pseudo terminal device names
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Date: 7 Jan 88 17:55:00 GMT
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[urp]

As others have stated, DEC uses quite a few different device names, and I
haven't seen a recent 'official' list of reserved names (perhaps they are
ALL officially reserved?), but I named my terminal device PX and the control
device PY. This has a certain elegance to it, since many terminals are
called TX, and this _is_ a "P"seudo TX after all :-). And in the twisted
paths of my brain, it makes lots of sense to call the controlling device
for a PX a PY, so voila! I haven't run into conflicts (yet). In the back
of one of those wonderful orange binders (?SYSGEN?), there is a list of
DEC device names and the devices associated with them. I did not find PX
or PY there, so I was reassured.

Regards,
Todd Aven
the Software Sweatshop
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