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| author | Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-17 06:33:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Ying-Chieh Liao <ijliao@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-17 06:33:00 +0000 |
| commit | e93762eb546b2b6cda6466a9351a54da518a6929 (patch) | |
| tree | 475093f6b952db1bcf4616fd27d0848b5bda5643 /sysutils/cotty/pkg-descr | |
| parent | f0772a5f5e04df0ab247a7b6fcfce4260425cd36 (diff) | |
| download | ports-e93762eb546b2b6cda6466a9351a54da518a6929.tar.gz ports-e93762eb546b2b6cda6466a9351a54da518a6929.zip | |
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diff --git a/sysutils/cotty/pkg-descr b/sysutils/cotty/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..19f2c95e211c --- /dev/null +++ b/sysutils/cotty/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Simple command-line pseudo terminal manager: +allows to run coprocesses talking to each other thru their tty and/or pty. + +Most useful to drive from scripts programs that want a tty, as in + cotty -d -- pppd silent 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.2 \ + -- ssh -t root@remote pppd +This particular use has been obsoleted under Linux +(but probably not under the various free BSDs and proprietary Unices), +as it can be done without cotty with + pppd pty 'ssh -t root@remote pppd' silent 192.168.0.1:192.168.0.2 |