From: jwinstea@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.) Subject: Re: ttys2 not responding Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1992 05:31:09 GMT
In article <1992Jul2.212731.24276@mcshh.Hanse.DE> umisef@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Bernd Meyer) writes:
>As far as I can judge, you made a mistake quite familiar to me ..:-)
>Don't mistake ttys1 with com1 and ttys2 with com2 - MS-deaf starts
>counting with one, though (as a .sig in this group says), real programmers
>start with zero. So com1 is ttys0, and com2 is ttys1,
>whilst ttys2 seems to be com3 (can't test that).
Unless you have a non-standard setup, there is no such thing as
/dev/ttys0. /dev/ttys1 *does* correspond to COM1 under DOS, and so
forth.
/dev/ttys1 has major 4, minor 64 (ie. mknod /dev/ttys1 c 4 64), and
the others increment the minor number from there.
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