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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!udel!news.intercon.com!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 19:06:33 GMT Message-ID: <C74vqy.JpJ@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> References: <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> <C6xyBv.845@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1776@lucifer.UUCP> Lines: 13 In article <1776@lucifer.UUCP> rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs) writes: > 'scuse me, but what is wrong with the more 'usual' system such as:- > tty[a-z] Com ports > tty[p-z][0-9a-f] Pseudo ttys Because it's not obvious that 'ttyp' is a serial port and 'ttypa' is a pseudo tty. Also, what do you do for more than 26 serial ports? -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Har du kramat din varg idag? 'U` "Det er min ledsager, det er ikke drikkepenge."