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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Using a terminal on a serial port
Date: 13 Jul 1995 07:52:00 +0200
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Brian L Gottlieb <brian@beru.wustl.edu> wrote:
>I am trying to set up my roommate's Macintosh as a dumb terminal on my
>FreeBSD box. I read the section in the FAQ on doing this, but ran into
>the problem that /dev/tty00 does not exist (the serial port is COM1 in DOS).
There used to be two names for the same thing in 2.0 (and prior)
systems: /dev/tty00 and /dev/ttyd0. Meanwhile, the /dev/tty0* names
have been dropped, so use /dev/ttyd0 instead.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)