Subject: Re: virtual terminals
To: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Joshua E Hope <otaku@unixgeek.ml.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/26/1998 03:17:24
dt works pretty well. I just wanted to add onto Dr. Bill's thing here that
dt doesn't necessarily have to be run as root, I commonly run it as my
regular account. You DO need to be on the /dev/console device to run dt
though :)

Josh Hope
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On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Dr. Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, chiodi wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have macse/30 running netbsd 1.3.2.  I am a long time linux user
> > and newbie netbsd user.  on linux control-f#, switches between
> > multiple virtual terminals.  is this possible with netbsd/mac68k?
> 
> Yes, but you need to run a program called "dt" to do it. It's available on
> ftp.macbsd.com, and might also be on ftp.netbsd.com (I'm not sure).
> 
> Note if you're using dt, you need to boot in b&w, and you used to need to
> build more pty's to have more than 4 screens.
> 
> Basicly you log in as root, and start up dt. It'll then give you as many
> root screens as you specify, and a command prompt at each. I think you can
> customize it to do white on black instead of black on white. Also, I think
> you can have it spawn init on each virtual console.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> Bill
> 
>