*BSD News Article 54492


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!btnet!zetnet.co.uk!demon!org29.demon.co.uk!stuartp
From: stuartp@org29.demon.co.uk (Stuart M Pringle)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: tty0x definitions in 2.0.5
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:16:30 GMT
Organization: Pagoda
Lines: 20
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <816264990.19728@org29.demon.co.uk>
Reply-To: stuartp@org29.demon.co.uk
NNTP-Posting-Host: org29.demon.co.uk
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: org29.demon.co.uk

I have just installed 2.0.5 and as, a relative newcomer,
used the Frisch Sytem Admin book as a guide.  I expected to find definitions in 

/dev/ttys for tty0x - ttyxx but there are only ttydx and ttypx.  Also there are 

no tty 0x - ttyxx files in /dev.

Should there be?  Should I create these - if so, how?  I would use the ttydx 
files but I can't get a pc to work as a terminal if I do.  Is this maybe a 
result of the modem specific driver trying to communicate using a very basic 
null modem cable (ie only lines 2 and 3 connected, reversed).

Any help gratefully received.

Thanks,

Stuart