Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!ssbn!bill
From: bill@ssbn.WLK.COM (Bill Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: VP/ix
Message-ID: <261@ssbn.WLK.COM>
Date: 25 Nov 88 15:27:27 GMT
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In article <152@ecicrl.UUCP> clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes:
|In article <6966@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
|>Also, is there any real documentation on using the virtual terminals?
|>It seems pretty silly to have to start a dos session just to get access
|>to them.  
|
|Are you running Xenix or UNIX?
|
|You're supposed to have getty's sitting on the vt's (via UNIX inittab).  
|Take a look at /etc/gettydefs to find the definitions that have the 
|"VT0x!login" prompts.  If you're using a reasonably recent version of
|386/ix or AT&T UNIX (I think) there is a sysadm menu to change the
|number of virtual terminals.
|-- 
|Chris Lewis, Markham, Ontario, Canada

I think that Chris is wrong about AT&T UNIX, but I hope he isn't.  I have
the gettydefs for virtual terminals but I can't get a getty to run on
them.  I am able to use them under VP/ix out of DOS, but that's only after
getting DOS going.

Is Chris correct?  Is there some way to get virtual terminals going on the
console in AT&T 386 UNIX?  If so, please post or email, that's about my
only real beef with the product.
-- 
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