Pseudotty

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  pseudo-tty
       
          {Berkeley} {Unix} networking device which appears to an
          {application program} as an ordinary terminal but which is in
          fact connected via the network to a process running on a
          different {host} or a windowing system.  Pseudo-ttys have a


          slave half and a control half.  The slave tty (/dev/ttyp*) is
          the device that user programs use and the control tty
          (/dev/ptyp*) is used by {daemon}s to talk to the net.
       
          (1994-11-08)