Terminal devices

[James Drummey]

Our legacy application running on HPUX 11.11 contains tables which map terminal device names to its own terminal numbers. The map contains only pty terminal devices ( no pts ).

On two of our 3 machines, telnet connections always get a pty device, which works fine. On the third machine, telnet connections always get a pts device. As a result, the application chokes.

What determines the type of terminal device that is assigned on a connection?Is there a way to control which type of device is assigned on a connection?

[Dennis Handly]

>Is there a way to control which type of device is assigned on a connection?

I assume they are the same. Just they ran out of numbers and came up with a new scheme?
Here are some links about pts vs pty naming:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1221445
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1157555
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1216545
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=565273