Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 02:23:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <199508310723.CAA06335@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199508302331.JAA27466@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 31, 95 09:31:34 am
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> >"Um. Ok, if I was on ttydf, I should really go to ttye0, but then what do I > >do with cuaaf, go to cuab0?" > > I have a cyclades card on cuac[g-h] for testing ([0-f] are unused). It's > confusing. > > Hex numbering would confuse people who think in hex as badly as we do in > base 36 :-). > > This problem should have been fixed for ptys long ago. I guess it less > noticeable for ptys because there is no hardware to worry about. So does anybody have any brilliant ideas? I think this raises another point: other serial drivers are using other letter prefixes (I think?) already... ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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