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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!hillres155.cc.purdue.edu!willey From: willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Virtual Terminals in NetBSD? Date: 2 May 1996 01:46:29 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4m945l$r0s@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <4lbf47$4rt@portal.gmu.edu> <4lf9kv$37q@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <kiaspdmrs2z.fsf@laforge.ppe.bb-data.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: hillres155.cc.purdue.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Martin Ibert (mib@bb-data.de) wrote: : In article <4lf9kv$37q@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> willey@hillres142.cc.purdue.edu (Mark Willey) writes: : : : : Ryan M Rafferty (rraffer1@osf1.gmu.edu) wrote: : : : Is there any way to configure my new NetBSD 1.1 system to switch : : : virtual terminals ala Linux? I have a ton of experience with Linux, : : : But I am a newbie to the BSD world. : : : : use PCVT. it's in the src/arch/i386/isa directory. : But it will work only for PC machines, right? Is there any general : solution (like, for Amigas ...)? I don't know if console drivers with this capability exist for other platforms. (The original poster has i386, I assume, because was referring to the Linux OS as reference.) One of my personal favorite programs is "screen", which will allow multiple terminal connections over one terminal device. I highly reccommend that you look into it! Mark