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pty(1)                 DragonFly General Commands Manual                pty(1)

NAME
     pty - redirects terminal I/O to pseudo-terminal

SYNOPSIS
     pty

DESCRIPTION
     Pty is a tool to help debug console programs which take the terminal out
     of canonical mode, by allowing the program being debugged and the
     debugger to run on separate terminal devices.  This allows one to step
     through program code in the debugger without messing up the terminal
     settings of the program being debugged or having debugger output
     overwrite program output.

     To use pty, the programmer changes to the terminal device where he or she
     wishes to interact with the program to be debugged, and at the shell
     prompt, runs pty with no arguments.  Pty will print out the filename of
     the slave side of the pseudo-terminal it has opened.  Inside the
     debugger, running in another terminal device, one then redirects the
     program to be debugged's IO to the slave (tty command of gdb).
     Thereafter, when running the program under the debugger, its I/O will
     occur on the device on which pty is running.

     When you are finished using pty, you must manually kill it.  When pty
     starts it also prints out its pid.

AUTHORS
     James Bailie <jimmy@mammothcheese.ca>
     http://www.mammothcheese.ca

                                October 6, 2007