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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Thu, 13 May 1993 01:19:05 GMT
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In article <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
> But the tty names should ALWAYS start with tty.

Why?

But even if you do that, Iwould suggest that you adopt a more specific name
scheme:

	tty[class][device][port#]

So you'd have ttycom00, ttycom01, ttyast0[0-3], ttydigi[01][00-15], ...
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