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-.TH CONSOLE 4 1994-10-31 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
-.SH NAME
-console \- console terminal and virtual consoles
-.SH DESCRIPTION
-A Linux system has up to 63
-.I "virtual consoles"
-(character devices with major number 4 and minor number 1 to 63),
-usually called
-.I /dev/ttyn
-with 1 \(<=
-.I n
-\(<= 63.
-The current console is also addressed by
-.I /dev/console
-or
-.IR /dev/tty0 ,
-the character device with
-major number 4 and minor number 0.
-The device files
-.I /dev/*
-are usually created using the script MAKEDEV,
-or using
-.BR mknod (1),
-usually with mode 0622 and owner
-.IR root.tty .
-.LP
-Before kernel version 1.1.54 the number of virtual consoles was
-compiled into the kernel (in
-.IR tty.h :
-#define NR_CONSOLES 8)
-and could be changed by editing and recompiling.
-Since version 1.1.54 virtual consoles are created on the fly,
-as soon as they are needed.
-.LP
-Common ways to start a process on a console are:
-(a) tell
-.BR init (1)
-(in
-.BR inittab (5))
-to start a
-.BR mingetty (8)
-(or
-.BR agetty (8))
-on the console;
-(b) ask
-.BR openvt (1)
-to start a process on the console;
-(c) start X\(emit will find the first unused console,
-and display its output there.
-(There is also the ancient
-.BR doshell (8).)
-.LP
-Common ways to switch consoles are: (a) use Alt+F\fIn\fP or
-Ctrl+Alt+F\fIn\fP to switch to console
-.IR n ;
-AltGr+F\fIn\fP
-might bring you to console \fIn\fP+12 [here Alt and AltGr refer
-to the left and right Alt keys, respectively];
-(b) use Alt+RightArrow or Alt+LeftArrow to cycle through
-the presently allocated consoles; (c) use the program
-.BR chvt (1).
-(The key mapping is user settable, see
-.BR loadkeys (1);
-the above mentioned key combinations are according to the default settings.)
-.LP
-The command
-.BR deallocvt (1)
-(formerly
-.BR disalloc )
-will free the memory taken by the screen buffers for consoles
-that no longer have any associated process.
-.SS Properties
-Consoles carry a lot of state.
-I hope to document that some other time.
-The most important fact is that the consoles simulate vt100 terminals.
-In particular, a console is reset to the initial state by printing the two
-characters ESC c.
-All escape sequences can be found in
-.BR console_codes (4).
-.SH FILES
-.I /dev/console
-.br
-.I /dev/tty*
-.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR chvt (1),
-.BR deallocvt (1),
-.BR init (1),
-.BR loadkeys (1),
-.BR mknod (1),
-.BR openvt (1),
-.BR console_codes (4),
-.BR console_ioctl (4),
-.BR tty (4),
-.BR ttyS (4),
-.BR charsets (7),
-.BR agetty (8),
-.BR mapscrn (8),
-.BR mingetty (8),
-.BR resizecons (8),
-.BR setfont (8)
-.SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
-.I man-pages
-project.
-A description of the project,
-information about reporting bugs,
-and the latest version of this page,
-can be found at
-\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.
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