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[Matthew B. Brookover]

In article <1991Apr7.200722.20811 at mercury.cair.du.edu> mbrookov at diana.cair.du.edu (Matthew B. Brookover) writes:
>I have a DECsystem 5400 running Ultrix 4.1.  We have installed the
>65+ capicity upgrade.  I created 64 pty's and tty's with /dev/MAKEDEV,
>and then added them to /etc/ttys and then did a kill -HUP 1 to make
>init read the changes to /etc/ttys.

the kernel config file must be modified to get more than 32 ptys.  change the
line
	pseudo-device pty
to
	pseudo-device pty 64

the guide to configuration file maintenance says that the number must be an
increment of 16.

My thanks to the people who responded.

							Matt
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Matthew B. Brookover
Computing and Information Resources
University of Denver
mbrookov at diana.cair.du.edu