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[monz <joemonz AT yahoo.com>]

Hi Sindi,

Thanks for your response.

I had just downloaded and installed bin.tgz from the Slackware 4
repository, so i tried splitvt with this command:

$ TERM=vt100 splitvt

Result: it looked like my screen got split at first, but followed by
an error message, and then a return to the regular prompt and un-split
screen. The error message was:

$ No available pseudo terminals

I googled that and read responses to your question about this
same issue back in 2007, on this list. But I can't figure out
how to make splitvt work. Here is the output on my BasicLinux
computer of this command:

$ ls /dev/pt* /dev/tt*

crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   0 Feb 10  2004 ptyp0
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   1 Feb 10  2004 ptyp1
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   2 Feb 10  2004 ptyp2
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   3 Feb 10  2004 ptyp3
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   4 Feb 10  2004 ptyp4
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   5 Feb 10  2004 ptyp5
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   6 Feb 10  2004 ptyp6
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   7 Feb 10  2004 ptyp7
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   8 Feb 10  2004 ptyp8
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          2,   9 Feb 10  2004 ptyp9
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          5,   0 Jan 16 02:57 tty
crw-------    1 root     root       4,   0 Jul 17  1994 tty0
crw-------    1 monz     500        4,   1 Jan 16 02:59 tty1
crw--w--w-    1 root     root       4,   2 Jan  3 00:00 tty2
crw--w--w-    1 root     root       4,   3 Jan  3 00:00 tty3
crw-------    1 root     root       4,   4 Jan 25  2004 tty4
crw-------    1 root     root       4,   5 Oct  9  1999 tty5
crw-------    1 root     root       4,   6 Oct  9  1999 tty6
crw-r--r--    1 root     root       4,   7 Jul 17  1994 tty7
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          4,   8 Jul 17  1994 tty8
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          4,  64 Mar  5  2004 ttyS0
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          4,  65 Jul 17  1994 ttyS1
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          4,  66 Mar  8  2004 ttyS2
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          4,  67 Jul 17  1994 ttyS3
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          4,  68 Jul 17  1994 ttyS4
crw--w--w-    1 root     root       3,   0 Jan  3 18:30 ttyp0
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   1 Jan  3 12:44 ttyp1
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   2 Mar  3  2004 ttyp2
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   3 Mar  3  2004 ttyp3
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   4 Feb 21  2004 ttyp4
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   5 Feb 21  2004 ttyp5
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   6 Feb 21  2004 ttyp6
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   7 Feb 21  2004 ttyp7
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   8 Feb 21  2004 ttyp8
crw-r--r--    1 root     5          3,   9 Feb 21  2004 ttyp9

-joe monzo