What is a tty, and how do I access a tty? - Ask Ubuntu A tty, short for teletype and perhaps more commonly called a terminal, is a device which lets you interact with the system by sending and receiving data, such as commands and the output they produce
What does TTY stand for? - Ask Ubuntu TTY was the device name for terminals on the PDP-7 and PDP-11 that Unix originated on, it probably went back to the PDP-1 and who knows what before that So when they started working on a terminal device handler for Unix, why would they use anything else? I was confused when I first learned that MSDOS used COM: as the device name for serial ports
How do I connect to TTY COM ( dev ttyUSB0)? - Ask Ubuntu I am running Ubuntu for the first time by booting from a USB drive Now I have plugged in a USB-to-serial converter which has been recognized and automatically added as dev ttyUSB0 How do I acce
What is tty7 tty2 in the commandline? - Ask Ubuntu The name of TTY actually comes from the old days of computers: then computers even had teletypewriters as terminal, so you could see the output of programs printed (tty = TeleTYpe TeleTYpewrite) TTY usually refers for "physical" terminals, like more attached terminals (even like a teletypewriter) to a single computer, or in our days: more separated text consoles, you can switch between them
Find which TTY device connected over USB - Ask Ubuntu The adb ppp command to switch back to the USB cable instead of tcp ip says it needs the tty as a parameter I have googled for this and found lots of references to solutions that don't work A lot of those point to ttyUSB0, which doesn't seem to exist on my system I am running Ubuntu Desktop 12 04 How can I find my tty for my android phone
How to send terminal command to a TTY terminal - Ask Ubuntu I am looking for a way to send an executed command to a TTY terminal For example, let us say that I open the gnome-terminal and on the window I type sudo aptitude update amp; amp; sudo aptitude u
gnome - How can I leave tty? - Ask Ubuntu I mean I got to tty, and I want to get to Unity if it is the main explorer or I don't know how to call it, sorry for my bad dictionary of ubuntu definitions, I'am very new to this