From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 00:27:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA26887 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:27:38 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA26881 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 00:27:37 -0700 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id CAA06335; Thu, 31 Aug 1995 02:23:37 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199508310723.CAA06335@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Gritching about XFree86 and serial port naming To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 02:23:37 -0500 (CDT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@freebsd.org, peter@nmti.com In-Reply-To: <199508302331.JAA27466@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 31, 95 09:31:34 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > >"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