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From: rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices
Message-ID: <1776@lucifer.UUCP>
Date: 14 May 93 13:09:12 GMT
References: <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> <C6xyBv.845@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Organization: Lucas Powertrain Systems, Electronic Control Group, UK
Lines: 14

'scuse me, but what is wrong with the more 'usual' system such as:-

	tty[a-z]		Com ports
	tty[p-z][0-9a-f]	Pseudo ttys

I certainly think than /dev/com[01] should go, for a start it's damn confusing
initially.

R.
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