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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 19:06:33 GMT
Message-ID: <C74vqy.JpJ@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
References: <DERAADT.93May7134937@newt.fsa.ca> <C6xyBv.845@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> <1776@lucifer.UUCP>
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In article <1776@lucifer.UUCP> rst@liciren.li.co.uk (Richard Thombs) writes:
> '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

Because it's not obvious that 'ttyp' is a serial port and 'ttypa' is a pseudo
tty. Also, what do you do for more than 26 serial ports?
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