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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
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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.
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