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tty         
<hardware> /tit'ee/ (ITS pronunciation, but some Unix people say it this way as well; this pronunciation is not considered to have sexual undertones), /T T Y/ 1. teletypewriter. 2. (Especially Unix) Any terminal at all; sometimes used to refer to the particular terminal controlling a given job (it is also the name of a Unix command which outputs the name of the current controlling terminal). 3. (Unix) Any serial port, whether or not the device connected to it is a terminal; so called because under Unix such devices have names of the form tty*. Ambiguity between senses 2 and 3 is common but seldom bothersome. 4. A TDD. [Jargon File] (1995-11-23)
TTY         
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pseudo-tty         
  • script]]</code> unix command that records user's input for replaying it later.
PAIR OF PSEUDO-DEVICES
Pseudo TTY; Pseudo-TTY; Pseudo terminal
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)

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1. CDC Contact Information: Public Inquiries: English (888) 246–2675 Spanish (888) 246–2857 TTY (866) 874–2646 Mon–Fri 8am–11pm EST Sat–Sun 10am–8pm EST Address: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd.
2. EST daily, at 1–800–762–8740 (TTY 1–800–462–7585). Housing advocates criticized the announcement, saying that FEMA failed to spell out long–term housing plans, ignored existing federal housing programs and will push some poor evacuees into shelters for the homeless because of lack of planning.