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From: ahabig@bigbang.astro.indiana.edu (Alec Habig)
Subject: tty vs cua
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In repsponse to the various complainst about using tip/kermit on tty, and the
clocal hack not working anymore, I decided to try using the cua device instead.
However, a MAKEDEV tty* nets me the following devices :

	tty01
	tty02
	cua03

The tty's are correct (I've got a slightly twisted setup), but why on earth
cua03?  Ok, sez I, I'll just MAKEDEV cua02 (my modem).  Bzzzt.  It seems that
the "make tty" and "make cua" parts of the MAKEDEV script are mutually
exclusive.  Each section rm's _all_ tty's and cua's before making anything!  So
using MAKEDEV as written will land you either tty's or cua's, not both.

I was under the impression that cua's were simply another incarnation of the
tty's.  Why can't they coexist?  Is it safe to hack MAKEDEV to let me build
cua02 along with my tty's?  (tty01 is my mouse port, after all!).  And why on
earth was cua03 built when I made tty* - sio3 is even commented out in my
kernel!

	Alec