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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5725 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:53:42 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ulowell!cs.ulowell.edu!vpham From: vpham@cs.ulowell.edu (vinh) Subject: Re: Install bindist from C: or FTP+NE1000 Message-ID: <C01M4D.EB8@ulowell.ulowell.edu> Sender: usenet@ulowell.ulowell.edu (News manager - ulowell) Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science References: <1992Dec24.114250.10992@vax.oxford.ac.uk> <21250011@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:50:37 GMT Lines: 10 In article <21250011@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com> reink@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Reinier Kleipool) writes: >Hello, > > > That is right. The ne driver is internal in the kernal only. >It does not have a /dev/ specialfile. So why is it that network cards dont' conforrm to the standard UNIX device(neither a block nor a character device). Is there any historical reason? Thanks.`