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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps
Subject: Re: minicom on FreeBSD
Date: 17 Feb 1995 13:53:11 +0100
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Mr Cheuk Kong Lo <cklo@hk.super.net> wrote:

>Has anyone get this nice thing to work? I'm using mgetty 0.22 on 
>/dev/cua01.

mgetty?  For any good reason?  [Not that i doubt there *might* be good
reasons for running it, but i wouldn't use it unless i must.
Lockfiles do always have race conditions.]

>Btw, what's the difference with this cua01 cuai01, ttyd01, ttyid01?

...and cual01 and ttyld01?

They are operating/initial/lock devices.  RTFM sio(4) for the details.
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cheers, J"org                             work:      --- no longer ---
                                          private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)