From: bairstow@white.crayola.cs.psu.edu (Steven A Bairstow) Subject: Re: Naming Serial Devices Date: Mon, 3 May 1993 15:37:32 GMT
In article <1s2qjhINNbe@hydra.Helsinki.FI> rick@ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller - Linux Device Registrar) writes:
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>Since this affects almost *all* of us, I've posted it to both newsgroups.
>...
>Rather than throw ourselves into a hyperbolic trajectory like "tty00" or even
>"con??" or "ttyC??"... why not duplicate the PTY naming method, but with the
>first letter starting at CAPITAL "S" and going on down the line?
Yes, I like it! A good scheme and it is even compatible with the existing
nameing.
Steve