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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Naming convention for tty-like devices
Message-ID: <C78oJC.2AA@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Date: 18 May 93 20:21:09 GMT
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In article <C758LK.CB0@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:
> That still does not answer what the virtual consoles should be named as.
> tty[0-9][0-9] like in syscons does not seem to be very appropriate.

ttyv[0-9][0-9][0-9]

I really don't like using base-36 numbering. Make the ptys ttyp[0-9][0-9][0-9]
if you must.
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