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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Sindi wrote:

> ls /dev/ptyp?
> ls /dev/ttyp?
>
> This will probably list numbers 0 through 8 (1 through 9?).
> You probably need to make ptyp9 and ttyp9 etc.
>
> You can run a script from Slackware to make ALL the devs or mknod to make 
> one at a time.
>
> ls -l ptyp? will show you whether this is a block or character device.
> (b or c listed at the beginning of the line)
>
> mknod ptyp10 b 3 17  - (if ptyp9 were b 3 16)
> - hypothetical example only!!!
>
> rxvt uses pairs of these "pseudoterminals".  To get rxvt to work as user I 
> had to chmod o+x all of them.  If I did just the first one, only one rxvt 
> would work. If I did not exit properly, the one(s) I was using would 
> change permissions on reboot.  (I think you found some fix for that 
> recently but I just chmod o+x ?typ? in rc).

Thanks for that information, Sindi. I didn't check yet, but I bet you're 
right about why I can't open more than 9 rxvt's.

Actually, now that I've thought about this more, I think I would rather 
install screen than mknod those extra device files. I've been using screen 
more lately and it seems the more I use it, the more I like it. I 
think you tried it at some point, too, didn't you? I'm guessing I'll find 
screen in Slack4, but it would be nice to have a more recent version. I 
think I'll look at later Slack versions as well. I don't suppose you tried 
compiling screen for BL? I didn't see it at your site. I may even try my 
hand at compiling it if I don't find something that seems like it would 
work.

Thanks,
James