upl@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (Undergrad Projects Lab) (06/29/90)
Hi all! I was looking in my manual recently. The manual that I have is for the 3.51 OS. and the tset(1) info makes reference to /etc/ttytypes(5) for which I can find neither an actual file nor a page in my manuals. Am I missing something from my manuals, or is it just not there? Does anyone have the format that this file is _supposed_ to take? I've looked on other unix systems that I have access to. On the three systems I've looked on, none of them have an /etc/ttytypes file. The tset(1) man page does note that this version of tset is for the AT&T Unix PC only, which leads me to believe that other unix systems would not have the /etc/ttytypes file on them. I can kludge my way around the use of this file, but it's not as elegant as I'd like. If anyone could tell me the format of this file, and/or whether or not it really makes a difference, it would be appreciated. Thanks again for all your wonderful assistance!!! - sparkie P.S. Please reply to: harier!sparkie@cs.wisc.edu and not to this account. P.P.S. Hey, kls@ditka, I didn't put a garbage "Followup-To:" line in this post. However, I don't understand why that was a bad thing to do. No flames intended, just asking.
jetfuel@csusac.csus.edu (Dave Jenks) (06/29/90)
In article <4949@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> harier!sparkie@cs.wisc.edu writes: >I was looking in my manual recently. The manual that I have is for the 3.51 OS. >and the tset(1) info makes reference to /etc/ttytypes(5) for which I can find >neither an actual file nor a page in my manuals. > >Am I missing something from my manuals, or is it just not there? Does anyone >have the format that this file is _supposed_ to take? I've looked on other >unix systems that I have access to. On the three systems I've looked on, none >of them have an /etc/ttytypes file. Funny, I was noticing the same thing today! I wrote another /etc/rc which was a lot cleaner, and remembered a BSD system (a VAX 11/750 running ULTRIX - a BSD look-alike) that had it. I looked at the /etc/ttytype file so that I would be creating the "same" "compatible" format. A piece of mine looks like this: pc7300 /dev/w1 pc7300 /dev/w2 tvi925 /dev/tty000 dumb /dev/ph1 and so on. The fields are separated by tabs, but maybe spaces would be safer. Either way, I haven't noticed any trouble with tset. -- ======================================================================= "Pro is to con, as progress is to Congress..." >>-@@-> Dave Jenks ...!ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!jetfuel =======================================================================