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From: "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>, "Oakley, Karen" <KOakley AT mrcds DOT com>
Subject: RE: NTTY
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 15:02:03 -0400
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Karen Oakley wrote:
> >could you please tell me what NTTY stands for??  thanks

I seem to remember this having something to do with low-level
line control in Unix. The following web page calls it a
"Hardware Emulation Module" (Google is your friend):
http://www.ceng.metu.edu.tr/~aydin/files/PROGRAMMING/StreamProgramming/strm11/strm0179.htm

-Jerry


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