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From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>
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Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 08:04:49 +0600 (GMT+0600)
Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, peter@nmti.com, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmt\i.com
In-Reply-To: <199508302300.JAA26409@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 31, 95 09:00:48 am
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> 
> >> "ttyd0" is not distinguishable from "cuad0" when truncated to 2 characters
> >> for printing by ps, etc. :-)
> 
> >*blink*
> 
> >I'm sorry, you completely lost me there. How can you possibly have getty
> >on both the cuaXX and ttyXX ports? What's the point of making them
> >different... they point to the same physical device!
> 
> `talk peter ttyXX' won't work if peter is actually logged in to cuaXX.
> I'm not sure how you could be logged in to cuaXX.  Perhaps something
> involving callback.

Logging on cuaXX may be useful when connecting a local terminal by a cable
with broken null-modem connection (many of them contain no wire from DTR
to DCD). 

		Serge Babkin

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