software change of tty?

[Stefan Jeglinski]

One is supposed to be able to switch consoles with a keystroke 
combination, usually clover-control-FkeyN IIRC. Sometimes this works, 
sometimes not, and seems to have varied over the years going back to 
the early Linux/PPC distributions I've run. It seems to vary from 
machine to machine, and from time to time on one machine. (in this 
case I'm not using the latest and greatest, we're talking older 604 
machines with G3 upgrades, adb keyboards, YDL3/yum-updated, and 
runlevel 3 only).

I'm less interested in hacking through and fixing the root cause. I'm 
more interested if there is a workaround, like a command I can do in 
one console that switches me to another. Does a suite of commands for 
tty manipulation exist? I aproposed tty and googled a bit, but came 
up blank.


Stefan Jeglinski