[ale] old school: pty and tty

Fulton Green ale at FultonGreen.com
Fri Jan 31 15:29:19 EST 2003


Off the top of my head, "pty" is a pseudo-terminal device type, typically
used for locally-spawned shells for terminal emulators in a windowed system,
or remote logins.

"tty", OTOH, is (or used to be) for physical dumb terminals attached to the
host.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:16:38PM -0500, John Wells wrote:
> Anyone know any good links to explanations of the differences between pty
> and tty, or a good overview of each?
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