Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!auschs!sauer From: sauer@auschs.UUCP (Charlie Sauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: more with pty's and ip software (AIX) Summary: reboot should not be necessary, put penable pts? would be Message-ID: <1331@auschs.UUCP> Date: 6 Dec 88 20:16:36 GMT References: <2383@stpstn.UUCP> Organization: IBM AES, Austin, TX Lines: 15 In article <2383@stpstn.UUCP>, aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes: > It seems that you have to reboot after using that lovely "devices" > command in AIX 2.2. Now all I have to do is persuade telnet that > no, it doesn't want to use ^T as the escape character. devices will create the pty. After that, penable pts? (where ? is the appropriate number) should enable it for login. No reboot should be needed. tn (telnet) respects an environment variable TNESC, which is the octal value of the escape character, e.g., I use TNESC=31 for ^Y. -- C.H. Sauer IBM Advanced Workstations Div. uucp: cs.utexas.edu!ibmaus!sauer 11400 Burnet Road, D75/802 822: @CS.UTEXAS.EDU:sauer@ibmaus.uucp Austin, Texas 78758-2502 aesnet: sauer@auschs (512) 823-3692 vnet: SAUER at AUSVM6