pseudo-tty

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pseudo-tty - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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 daemons to talk to the net.
  
     (1994-11-08)