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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!think.com!unixland!bill From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: com woes Message-ID: <1992Aug14.223433.13069@unixland.natick.ma.us> Date: 14 Aug 92 22:34:33 GMT References: <1992Aug9.085755.6237@news.tu-graz.ac.at> <CGD.92Aug11225735@agate.berkeley.edu> <2852.9208131413@thor.cf.ac.uk> Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix (508) 655-3848 Lines: 16 spedpr@thor.cf.ac.uk (Paul Richards) writes: >This change seems to be causing more confusion than anything else. Those >die hard unix people feel uncomfortable with it and those with less >experience are getting confused by conflicting messages relating to >different com numbers. I think we should change back to zero based com There shouldn't be any confusion. FORGET about DOS! This isn't DOS! People who use DOS (including myself) have to know what DOS calls com ports, and people who use UNIX (including myself) have to know what they are called in UNIX. The fact that both operating systems happen to run on the same hardware is irrelevant! -- bill@unixland.natick.ma.us ESIX Mailing List Moderator Public Access UNIX/USENET/E-MAIL! UUCP Accounts Available! (508) 655-3848 5 lines - Located in Natick, MA USA Supporting V.32/PEP/V.42bis, etc.