From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: ttys2 not responding Date: 3 Jul 1992 22:51:04 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).
>
>So long,
> Bernie
It depends which root disk you used to install Linux. Some of us have
our ttys numbered just like MS-DOS. The best way to tell is by the device
number. :-)
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)