Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 09:31:34 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming Message-ID: <199508302331.JAA27466@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> "ttyd0" is not distinguishable from "cuad0" when truncated to 2 characters >> for printing by ps, etc. :-) >I would gladly trade that very minor bit of information in exchange for the >ability to name 32 serial ports in an easy-to-remember-and-translate >fashion. >In the process of setting up a BocaBoard 2016, I basically stopped in my >tracks when I hit the 13th port. >"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. Bruce
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