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Date:      Mon, 5 May 2003 20:17:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc remote
Message-ID:  <20030505201526.O666@znfgre.qbhto.arg>
In-Reply-To: <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
References:  <200305052137.h45LbhQV012306@repoman.freebsd.org> <xzpk7d43h7n.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   Log:
> >   Add traditional BSD names (sio[0-3]) to the finger-friendly com[1-4]
> >   entries so that you can do things like 'tip sio1' without having
> >   to remember the DOS equivalent.
>
> NetBSD calls them tty[a-z]; we've always called them cuaa[0-9]+; Linux
> calls the /dev/cua[0-9]+; Solaris calls them /dev/cua/[a-z].  Who's to
> say what's traditional?

I have no objections to adding more aliases. I considered using cuaa[0-3],
but personally I have always found that harder to type, and the idea here
is "finger friendly."

If others want to add more aliases, feel free.

Doug

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