From: Rick Miller - Linux Device Registrar <rick@ee.uwm.edu> Subject: [ANSWER]: /dev/ttys0 or /dev/ttyS0? Date: 30 Apr 1993 13:42:12 GMT
bisc@zellweger.CH (Thomas K. Bischoff) writes:
>
>I am confused too. I just installed the newest SLS release. There is a
>/dev/ttys0 but this not a device it is an ascci file.
>there are no ttys1 or ttys2 , but a ttys3 with minor number 67.
>
Please, use ttyS* and cua* for serial lines (dial-in and dial-out).
My last release of the device list was kinda buggy...
[Rick quickly dodges a flying tomato.]
...but it looks like we'll be going back to the old "new" standard of
using ttyS* instead of ttys* (to avoid collisions with pty-slave tty's).
So folks... What about that "/dev/con??" idea? I kinda like it!
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